another just because....

Just because I want to remember how she opens the tea bags for me when I am making tea. There are only 4 of them and it may takes 5 minutes but it is her job....and she loves to help!

Right back...

I love and cherish the special moments when I am watching the kids..and something they do ..or say...will take me right back to a moment....and for a fleeting second you get to relive it...oh how I welcome these moments! This morning I had one with Riggs. He was sitting on the couch...he had just gotten up and I had handed him his warm, morning tea. He still prefers this first tea of the day from a straw cup...and I make sure this little request is met every day so his morning starts off right. As I watched him enjoy the tea...sucking it from the straw the same way he did when he was 2.....I was taken right back to his first day of Kindergarten.....

The morning of his first day of school started off just the same way...as did every morning before that...and every morning will until he tells me no more warm morning tea from a straw cup....hopefully I will be getting up and getting that warm tea ready for him for a while longer...when I hand it to him every morning it's like telling him I love him.

Lila's job

We are a Southern through and through around here..and my children don't go a day without sweet tea. Lila has found that she can open the tea bags for me and so that has become her little job...she is so cute with her little fingers as they work so hard to open the four tea bags that go in the pot. I love how helpful she wants to be and I love that we can make tea together everyday!

so sick

Riggs has been so sick for the past few days...some crazy fever virus. He has been in his bed by himself sick...can't eat anything sick...so very sick. Of course I hate it..I hate that he feels so rotten...and there is not much I can do for him to really make him feel better, but I have loved taking care of him. As he gets older I treasure these times when he really needs me and really wants me. I have drawn him three baths a day for the past days..he is like me that way...a good bath makes everything better.  I have turned on movies he is perfectly capable of turning on and brought him countless cups of warm tea..with a straw because that is the way he likes it most.  I have watched him sleep alot...so precious...and although he is getting so big there is something about watching your child sleep that brings you back to when they were little...so with all the sleeping he has been doing.I have been doing a lot of looking back and remembering when.