read to them when they're young

I've been waiting for the day that I can do what I need to get done without being interrupted. The second I am distracted, all bets are off. The laundry basket will sit half-folded for a week, the vacuum is in the hallway still plugged in and a cup of coffee will go cold while I help locate a lost Barbie shoe.

I ran down to the kitchen armed with some dish towels and an empty cup to find my husband engrossed in a game of Angry Birds. As frustrated as I could be with this, I have to say that I really didn't mind. I had my own things to do and he rarely sits still to do something so mindless. I teased him for a minute and then realized that it was just us. No dog, and no chatterbox of a 3 year old in sight or listening range. Panic immediately set in as it does for me the instant I even consider the "what if" of any situation, especially if it involves the aforementioned chatterbox. ..... "ummmm....where is she?"....."she was with you"....."no...."....."well I don't have her" I immediately ran at top speed up the stairs to her room while thinking to myself that she may not be there because I was just by her room to put laundry in the washer and I didn't hear a peep.

To my extreme relief, I found her doing what I always beg of her to do. Play. Be a kid. Enjoy that I'm not asking you to do chores. Soak in every minute of not having responsibility. And boy is she good at something when she puts her mind to it. I stood in the doorway taking it all in and when I finally spoke and asked her what she was doing she said, "I'm reading to my babies".



captive audience


story time


her babies