A sudden awareness of fairly prolonged peace and quiet jolted me this afternoon while I was checking my email, and that familiar "uh-oh" feeling when things have been too quiet for too long spurred me into investigating, dreading what I might find...
AND...
Jane: sitting in the hallway, happily chewing on age-appropriate toys by the bedroom door...
Charlie: busy lining up cars and trucks on the rug in the playroom...
Henry: intensely enjoying MarioKart without screaming at his virtual opponents...
Calvin: propped up on pillows on my bed, reading a chapter book.
What's wrong with this picture?
The answer?
Nothing!
Amazing! Weird!
Wow.
I just needed to appreciate and document the beauty of it.
P.S. You know what else happened today? Jane napped. Charlie napped. I napped. All at the same time. The big boys were quiet and got along and did not dismantle anything while we napped.
Today might be a good day to buy a lottery ticket or something.
5 comments:
Good call, buy a lottery ticket!
Oh how nice. Those moments are (very) few and (very) far between with kids. Hope you have a repeat before too much time goes by. :)
Bliss!
As soon as you said it was too quiet, I thought "Uh oh, not good." I must be a parent or something. Days like this are too few.
That sounds amazing!
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