School and a Mixed Bag of Emotions
"You can’t imagine your life with kids, until you have them, then you can’t imagine your life without them." ~Author Unknown It's been a week since two of our three sons flew to Manila to attend their classes. Even with the (remaining) 9 year old son at home, doing his usual stuff alternately watching tv, tinkering with his Legos, cutting/ folding/ creating things with paper and playing with the iPad, and making a ruckus all by his lonesome, the house is, weirdly, quiet. I often find myself introspecting... about the nest almost empty now and other similar thoughts. And I struggle to stop myself from wallowing in a mixed bag of emotions. It's not a bad thing, except, I could waste hours doing that. I thought I was totally in control and could dismiss the situation as another milestone, like seeing your child lose his first baby tooth. Nothing a warm hug or an ice cream could not fix. On the contrary, that hug at this time just exacerbates the yearning. It ...
Haha. What a cute sleeping mask!
ReplyDeleteThat's funny! Sometimes we need to respect what our kid want to do.
ReplyDeleteHaha!My kids are like that! they're like vampires, too. Stay up at night, sleep all day!
ReplyDeleteHahaha - this is so true! We seldom wake our kids up if there's no school or we have nowhere to go naman. :) We love sleeping in!
ReplyDeleteohh.. just like my son.. he usually wake me up when I am sleeping by the way, cute sleeping mask
ReplyDeletehahaha! The picture was really cute! I remember the Pirates of the Caribbean.
ReplyDeletethanks all! :) afternoon nap is one way of keeping this boy from ipad / iphone / computer gaming... hahaha.
ReplyDeletehehehe! your kid's funny... :-)
ReplyDeleteI like his sleeping mask. So cute! :)
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