Ok I will forewarn all of you before you get too far in to this that it's one of those posts where I am going to be all butterflies, smiles and kisses on you.
I just wanted to put it out there that I have an amazing and super handsome husband. We have something good going for us and we just work together, it's one of those things. I am not saying that it is always perfect or easy but it works and it is one of those forever things. I don't know if any of you have read the 5 Love Languages book but I think it is such an important thing to know what your partners love language is. How you like to receive love isn't always the same as your partner. Any who, on this past Sunday I was feeling a bit under the weather (surely it wasn't because of the alcohol consumption from the previous nights Halloween party). During the kiddo's nap time I decided to lay down myself and take a little snooze. I crashed out much harder and longer than anticipated and woke up in a small panic to look on the baby monitor to see that Paxton was out of his crib (I am pretty sure any day now he is going to find a way to climb out). About 2 seconds later I hear the sweetest laugher coming from my living room. Josh and Pax were having some "guy time" while H and I snoozed away in the afternoon. That was one of those little things that made my heart happy. Later on when J came to check on me he toted along my smiling baby boy and 2 cups of hot chocolate with a GIANT marshmallow in it (my favorite!!) We had both of the kids up and playing in our room, hanging out as a family and drinking hot chocolate and to me that was perfection.
This girl. I cannot fully explain how lucky I am to have a girl and in particular this little girl. She amazes me every day with how smart, thoughtful, sweet and funny she is. I am probably the only person who's heart melts over the story I am about to tell you but it just proved a few things to me that we are doing a good job raising her.
Yesterday we were watching a movie in the afternoon because she wasn't feeling super good. Plus, she has been so sweet with wanting to sit down and cuddle with me that I will take any moment of that as much as possible! Then she disappeared upstairs for a few minutes & when I went to find her, expecting the worse that she was pouring more nail polish on the floor some more or something equally bad, she came running out of her room saying "here mama, this is for you!" At first I couldn't tell what it was and then she came down the stairs with this....
To you this may look like a cup and a bowl with golfballs in it. Nothing special right? Well to Harper she had gone upstairs and made us some hot chocolate. Yup. That was the moment I turned to puddy. You see as cute as it was that she remembered our family time playing in our bedroom the day before when daddy brought me hot chocolate, it told me a few things about the parenting job that Josh and I are doing. We are raising someone who thinks of others, who is creative, has an imagination, and of course remembered that mama loves hot chocolate. Those of you who are not parents yet will think this whole post is probably ridiculous but it is honestly the teeniest things that mean the most in my life. I don't need much other than my family and those sweet moments where I know that someone is thinking of me at a random time in their day to make me hot chocolate.
