I am going to pretend to be oblivious to the actual date today and post a Thanksgiving post. Time is going by so quickly and some days I go to bed not knowing what day it is. Oh well. There are worse things. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. We spent the extended weekend with family and friends. We ate. We slept. We shopped.
I love Thanksgiving. I love it because it is a holiday that is what it is. There is no hype. There is hardly any stress. It is a day that is meant to give thanks for our blessings and spend it with the people we love. What could be better?
I have been thinking lately about this phase of my life. My thoughts consist mostly of my kids. Sometimes I can't stand how much I love them. I mean seriously, they are 2 of the cutest, most funny, sweet people I have ever met.
I love country music and one of my favorite songs right now is "You're Gonna Miss This." The chorus says, "You're gonna miss this. You're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days, hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now. But you're gonna miss this." The song talks about different phases of life and how while we live each phase, our tendency is to wish each phase away. Always looking for tomorrow or next month or years down the road. And while life evolves and circumstances change, we tend to look back and realize how good things were...even if at the time they didn't seem so great.
I cry every time I listen to it. I think I cry because the problem is, even though things are crazy busy right now and I have my personal stresses, I look at my kids and I already know that I am going to miss this time in my life.
I am going to miss Chloe crawling into our bed early in the morning to snuggle with us before Jon leaves for work. I am going to miss Beckham giving me sweet kisses anytime I ask for them. I am going to miss Chloe making up songs while we are driving in the car and asking me if she can put on lips (lip gloss). I am going to miss Beckham waking up in the morning and calling for me to pick him up and then giggling incessantly when I do. I am going to miss spying on both of them while Chloe tries to read Beckham her favorite books ("Fancy Nancy" and "Put Me in the Zoo").
They, along with Jon, are the sweetest blessings that surround me everyday. I know that the way things are right now will not stay the same and so I will try to live in the little sweet moments and try not to think too far in the future. It will be here soon enough.
Here is a little video of my 2 little turkeys on Thanksgiving (with a little bit of coaching from my little sister in the background!). I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday!
Christmas morning was magical! The kids didn't wake up until 7:30. A record in the Brown family. The pictures don't look like they were taken in the middle of the night! It was fun seeing all of the kids interact with eachother. It was sweet because they would tell eachother what Santa brought them and the other kids would get so excited!
Chloe's big gift was a new kitchen. She loves baking with me and so it was fun to see her bake me "treats" using her own kitchen. Beckham actually uses it as much as she does.
My parents bought a Wii system and so we spent the whole day playing tennis, bowling, baseball, racecars...
