Smiles

I'm very lucky, I have a digital picture frame on my desk at work. It makes me smile a dozen times a day. I really am happy with our family, even if there are rough patches.

Patches being lack of sleep, or doing so much for The Littles. The other day I left work at 4 pm, picked up the younger 2, went home, got dinner, the nighbours dropped off Alice (thank FSM for that), got them fed, brushed, storied, and eventually in bed around 9 pm. When the kids are older, what else am I going to do with that 5 hour window? Unfortunately this usually means by 9:30 pm rolls around my brain is just so dead that I can't do creative things like blogging. I miss blogging. I miss documenting the little things that the kids do to make me smile. But I know that this will come back. It's just a bit of a slog until then.

But do you know what you can do with the kids when it's a tough slog? Cuddle them. Race them. Tickle, dance, hug away their tears, play I-spy, hop on 1 foot, talk about Spider-Man, watch them discover things for the first time, help them learn. In other words it's not all bad.

I'm extremely lucky with how much time I can spend with the kids and Laura. It doesn't seem fair in the world. It's not. But I'll still take it.

Now to end this to see if I can help a crying toddler.