So many of our kids missed out on typical “kid moments” when they were young. They learn to be survivalists early and keep their walls up.
Which makes the moments when they show up as kids so powerful. Here are a few of my recent favorites:
- Seeing 17-year-old George’s huge smile when he sees me come home from Costco with the juice boxes, immediately grab one of the tiny little boxes and drink it all within 2 minutes.
- “Will you make pancakes for breakfast tomorrow?” Every kid deserves to have someone make them pancakes once in a while and to be comfortable enough at home to ask.
- George and Sierra coming in from a group activity and immediately interrupting my husband and I without even noticing and talking a mile a minute, both at the same time, telling different stories and showing off their trinkets. (My husband and I must have looked a bit like we had ping-pong balls for heads trying to follow this conversation)
Huge smiles all around.
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