I am most definitely a "list maker." I love the feeling of checking things off a list and visually seeing how productive my day was. As a stay-at-home-mom it is very easy to let the overwhelming amount of housework take over your to-do list everyday. But, now more than ever I have started to see that at the top of my "TO DO" list must always be my family. I must always give them the time they need to feel loved, needed, noticed and appreciated. It's so easy to look at the mountains of laundry, the stack of dishes in the sink and the rug that needs vacuuming and view them as priorities. It's so difficult if you are a TYPE A personality to just forget it all and fall into a cleaning frenzy. It's easy to get lost in it all. But then there is a moment in time when your little one asks, "play me mom" (choppy sentences are Lane's favorite right now) and you just throw in the towel and give up on being a domestic goddess and just get down on your needs and play choo choo trains all morning long. My story goes like this, after being up since 5:30am laying out school clothes, getting breakfast, doing dishes, baking snacks for the afternoon, watching and sending off daycare kiddos to school I finally sit down to eat my breakfast...as I am eating I am looking at all of the laundry I didn't get done the day prior so I jump right on it-sorting, washing and folding clothes. Then from around the corner comes the sweet little face of my two year old boy- wearing his train engineer hat upon his head and he looks up at me and says, "play me Mommy?" I respond, "buddy, I love playing trains with you -go get your train sets and I will play with you for a while." He responds by wrapping both of his precious little arms around my right thigh and saying, "best Mom ever." Ughhhhhh-WOW...talk about a moment....those three little words made me feel ten foot tall and like all of this is really worth it!!! I melted and teared up a bit because it was the most precious thing I have ever heard in my entire life. I was stunned and delighted all at once. While playing trains with him I talked to him about how good that made Mommy feel and how nice it is to say nice things to people (trying to instill the importance of giving compliments) but I was left really bewildered...HOW ON EARTH DID MY TWO YEAR OLD KNOW TO SAY THOSE WORDS? So, I just asked him. He responded with, "Grant do that last night to you." And, yes, he was right. Grant does do that same exact thing periodically. He will hug me tight and say, "You're the best Mom ever." So, although I worry myself to death over all of the negative things Lane may learn from having an older brother I am comforted knowing that he is also picking up some wonderful things too. Absolutely wonderful things!
Although I didn't capture the exact moment...this was minutes later and I had him repeat to me what he told me. The original moment was much more beautiful but it's still sweet to hear him say it all over again. I have a sweet and observant little boy on my hands. (Two, actually)
Please excuse the rumbling sound of the washing machine in the background- we were sitting right next to it- oops!
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