The Little Things

It's the little things in life that make me happy and my lovely husband did so many lovely things today even though he is very sick. He bought the kids some lemonade when he arrived home from work because they are both sick with the flu. He bought the 2 of us some very delicious looking ice creams (still yet to be eaten), and he happily took the kids and looked after them for the whole evening while I worked, while himself very sick. I offered to cancel my clients but he said he'd soldier on. I just don't know how he keeps going. I suppose when you have your own business and a family you just do. I am so very proud of him. He means the world to the 2 boys and I. Sometimes though, because we both work, it feels like we are just ships passing in the night but we are very lucky to be able to do what we do. While daddy works during the day and I have the 2 boys, come the afternoon and we switch roles I run off to work. The 2 boys are very adaptable too although they like to contribute to the madness. They adjust well to the chaos that prevails around the 3:30pm mark in the afternoon when they have a parental turnover. It's usually at this time that a phone rings, a child needs to go to the toilet or has just done a huge poo in their nappy and needs changing, the 2 boys wrestle and it goes beyond playing or there is some other pressing issue to attend to. All in all though by 3:50pm everything has settled down again like there was no interruption. So when I finished work this evening and came out to great my family, to my utter amazement, my lovely husband has the kids fed, bathed, read to and in bed, and Brandon is even asleep. How wonderful is that!  It is very strange though not to have said goodnight to them but I'm sure they will make up for it by waking me up at some ridiculously early hour of the night, especially because they are both sick.

I am very grateful to you sweetheart for being so organised and looking after the kids so very well. No wonder when we all hear the garage door go up in the afternoon the 2 boys and I make a run for it to see you, because you are such a lovely person to be around. Thanks for all the very big things and all the little things that you do. I love you. xxooxx

20 minutes later: Well I have just been vomited on by a sick Brandon. Just got to love those little things!