Oh, Laundry Day! Remember when you used to only come *maybe* once a week? Back before the house and kiddies when it was just the hubs and me in our tiny apartment? Why are you practically every day now? You exhaust me and make me frown and I don't like you. Okay, now that that's off my chest, let's talk about what made me smile today! (And by the way, I MUCH prefer Laundry Day(s) over Washing The Floor Day, or Clean The Bathrooms Day...vomit.)
So, today's Thursday. I love, love, LOVE Tuesday and Thursday mornings when Sam goes to nursery school. Okay, wait, that came out wrong. What I mean is, I love seeing my big boy get so excited about it. I still can't believe he's old enough to go to nursery school and it kills me to hear him talk about his teachers and his friends when I go to get him. On Tuesday afternoon he came running to greet me in the hall and then proudly picked out his artwork from the wall: a painted candy cane. I could tell he loved making it because he went to town with the red paint!! Let's just say it's one big red stripe. But I love how proud of it he is and I adore how it all looks hanging from our kitchen cabinets! Bit of a tangent there, huh? Getting back to hearing his little kid retelling...
The best part of picking him up is always the car ride home. He is such a little chatterbox! Today all he wanted to tell me about was playing with his friends in the sandbox, interrupted by fits of giggly explanations about someone jumping really high. I know...reading it over his material seems so, well, not funny. But that's why it's so hysterical to me! He laughed and talked the whole way home, while taking off his hat, coat, and shoes, and climbing up the stairs and into bed for naptime! The seemingly smallest things crack him up and he loves telling us all about it. If only I could bottle up the genuine joy that pours out of him during these moments!
As tired as I sometimes find myself while taking care of our little family (and our enormous amounts of laundry!!), it's moments like these that give me huge surges of energy and boost my mood immediately. I kinda can't wait for him to wake up and tell me more! Okay, maybe that's not completely true...what I really meant to say was I can't wait to hear more stories after he wakes up from his three hour nap!
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