Living the family life

  When you were an infant, I would look around at all the house work then look at you sleeping in my arms and I would think “5 more minutes and I’ll get up”. I would sit and stare at you. It’s hard to believe that I carried you for nine months and now you’re here. I dreamed of these 5 minutes for a very long time...   You are now a toddler, you beg me for 5 more minutes so you don’t have to go to bed or help pick up toys. You either continue to play or come cuddle with me knowing that I would give you more than those 5 minutes. With housework and children, I often lose track of time.    When you are a young child whom will start school, you’ll tell me how you asked the teacher for 5 more minutes to play today. You‘ll tell me all about your day with so much enthusiasm that you make yourself excited for tomorrow. I’ll laugh and listen at all the things my baby did today just to listen to you talk. These are the times I will hold dear.   When you become a te...

   Leah and Railee had dumped out their toy boxes. My husband told them if they cleaned it up, they could play with the new box. We had just bought a dehumidifier for our home and we let the kids play with the boxes we don't need. As they rushed to clean up Railee kept looking at the box. Leah was talking about what they could turn the box into.   I thought nothing of it until later that evening after the kids went to bed about how happy they were over a box. A BOX. They have a ridiculous amount of toys and they want to play with the box so much that they cleaned up all the toys to do so.   The more I thought on this, the more I applied it to real life. We overlook the little things, we overlook what they could be. They are seen as "just a box" and not a car or airplane or a tunnel. People get so caught up life and what it is and not what it can be. "It is what it is" needs to be put to rest. That saying needs to stopped being used. That's a way of accepti...