Staying at home has been a sacrifice in some ways, but it doesn’t feel like a sacrifice when I think about what I would miss!

“When the girl screams, when the boy cries, when I’m feeling mad,
I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don’t feel so bad!”
[you have to imagine Julie Andrews singing that and spinning around in some homemade curtains]

Some of my favorite things:
*Quiet mornings when the kids wake up on their own, all happy and smiley and excited to eat breakfast together. (“and you come sit in this chair by me?”)
*Playing a game of “hi ho cherrio” inbetween loads of laundry
*Scrubbing the bathtub on my knees and suddenly feeling little arms wrap around my waist and hearing AG say, “I love you, Mommy” completely unprompted
*Having AG link arms with me and look up to me and say, “We’re best friends.”
*Taking a picnic to the park just because it’s a nice day and we wouldn’t want to waste it
*Reading stacks of books with no reason that we have to stop
*Stopping at the library or getting Wendy’s chicken nuggets or going to Petsmart as a special surprise while we’re running errands. I will never get tired of hearing delighted squeals over little things.
*Pulling Biblical lessons out of every day stuff – lately we have been discussing “encourage one another,” and the tight writing on “Word World” has been giving us some good discussion points!! :)
*Having “inside jokes” with my toddler and always knowing what random little thing she’s referring to.
*Times when AG purposely makes a joke that honestly makes me belly laugh!
*Quiet playtime with LB before his nap. AG’s already in bed, and we pull out the toys and have floor time. He likes to grab my face and try to eat my chin!
*Knowing that I know my children better than anyone else (well, besides God and their Dad!), and they will never, NEVER start to call someone else “Mommy”

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