I’ve been in a crappy mood all day. Not really much reason, except for the dreary weather, and a lack of sleep, the snotty remainders of a rather bad cold, and an unpleasant amount of work foisted on me at the last minute. I’ve been feeling that “curl up in a ball and lick your wounds” kind of blue – without any real wounds worth licking – for most of the day.<\/p>\n
But as soon as I walked through the door at the end of the workday, and peeled off my work clothes for a t-shirt and jeans, and was greeted by the dervishes of energy that are my boys, I started to feel better.<\/p>\n
They’re gifts, my boys and my husband. I’m so very lucky to have all this waiting for me at the end of a long day.<\/p>\n
Simon and I went to pick up some pizza, and it poured rain. We got soaked, along with the pizza, just getting in and out of the car – and yet my mood was brighter than it was all day. I found the energy to do the laundry I’d been ignoring since the weekend after dinner, and I played with the boys for a little while. Simple pleasures.<\/p>\n
Beloved gave the boys a bath, and is reading a few last books to Tristan before we settle down for a night of finale TV, but I wanted to steal this last moment to share a moment with you.<\/p>\n
The boys were brushing their teeth before bed, and as they do every night, they clamoured first for a drink of water, and then for their “Bob lipstick” – a Bob the Builder chapstick. Every night, they ask for it – my preschoolers are addicted to chapstick.<\/p>\n
(Of course, you can’t apply it for them, and god help you if you actually take the cap off the Bob Lipstick before you give it to Simon.)<\/p>\n
Freshly bathed, brushed, watered and lipsticked (!), Simon was saying goodnight to Beloved.<\/p>\n
Beloved<\/strong>: Nighty-night Simon. Can I have a goodnight hug and Simon, turning his head to the side<\/strong>: Kiss my cheek! Don’t kiss Don’t look at me, I don’t know where he gets it from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been in a crappy mood all day. Not really much reason, except for the dreary weather, and a lack of sleep, the snotty remainders of a rather bad cold, and an unpleasant amount of work foisted on me at the last minute. I’ve been feeling that “curl up in a ball and lick your … Continue reading “Happy at home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
kiss?<\/p>\n
my Bob Lipstick, kiss my cheek!<\/em><\/p>\n