Home Alone

Usually Kent and I go away for the weekend to have some time without the kids, but tonight Reagran was so kind to ask Ethan and Ella to sleep over there. I always miss my kids when we go away, but tonight I really get the chance to MISS them since I am home without them. Kent and I had lots of fun finally watching "The Office" and eating our brownies, followed up with a cut throat game of UNO.It is so nice to have time at our own house to just relax and enjoy spending time together. I am glad that Kent asked me on a date for a night in. Now that we are shutting off the lights and getting ready to go to sleep, I am thinking about my nightly routine of tucking my kids in.
I will miss the prayers that Ella is trying to say on her own, including "bless the truck and the bye-bye (the car). I will miss the wet kiss that she insists on giving every one of us before we can leave her. I will miss running quickly out of her room before she thinks of yet ANOTHER toy that she wants us to get for her to sleep with. I will miss laying down with Ethan while he talks of his day at school. I will miss hearing about the boy, Ivan, in his class that keeps getting red tags and they have to call his daddy. I will miss him telling me about the new milk pouches they have that don't taste like the regular chocolate milk. I will miss having an "I love you more" war with Ethan as we eskimo kiss. I love my kids and I am very thankful for the times I have away from them to remind me how blessed I am. Thank you Reagran for just one more reason why you are the best friend a girl could ask for. You know you love me. XOXO.