during the school year, my time with the boys in the morning is usually frantic and fast paced trying to get everyone out the door and fed, etc. even though i work in the summer, i like the subtle shift in the little bit of time we have together in the mornings since they and ann (who teaches school) don’t have to race out the door (and since my “racing” is a little slower than other times a year!). this morning i enjoyed actually sitting down at the table with ann and our little one eating breakfast and listening to max talk and be cheerful (though when ann vetoed his post breakfast plan of hitting a soccer ball around the house with a badminton racket, he was not so cheerful!). in the little bit of time when we were all together and before i left for work, i smiled about carter, our seven year old and how he did several chores without being asked, how he helped his little brother and how i watched him sitting outside at our new patio table, just soaking in the world around him. i have two wonderful boys and an amazing wife. i’m one to avoid overused phrases that get batted around with little meaning or understanding, like the phrase, “i’m so blessed,” but i’m letting that phrase sit in my head and repeat itself until i’ve explored every angle, corner, meaning, that could be in there, because in some deep and rich way, i truly believe that i am.
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