i know every parent feels like this at some point. they think their children are the best in the world.
that is exactly how i feel about these boys of ours. having this summer as the last summer i could spend with just them at the cabin made me a little nostalgic. i mean they have been it for eight years now. i've spent many summers at the cabin with just them and this one was full of great times together. it was a little different than other summers--we didn't do any big 4 wheeler rides. we didn't go do a hike or a picnic. pregnancy made it so that i could do one flight of the stairs in the cabin and i was winded. but we did other things that just made me think how blessed our lives have been because we had the guts to have children. i'm so glad they came to our family together. the first few years were fun but a ton of work. from the age of about 3 or 4 i would say it has been remarkably easier having two at once. they play so well together. i am often a third wheel for them.
i love when i take them out on the grass at the cabin and ask them to give me some of their time for photos. the results always make me smile. one ends up grumpy and the other usually can get him to come around for a good laugh about something. they have a way of getting to each other--for good or bad. this year they turn eight years old. it just seems like a landmark year. these boys turn eight and we get a new little boy to our family. in some ways i feel for this new little boy coming--that he will be a singleton. i see how close jack and morgan are and i wish that for our youngest boy. but i have to remember that there are blessings in everything and having one child at a time will provide different opportunities and blessings that i don't yet realize. i do know that jack and morgan collectively and individually will be blessed as well because they will have another brother but one who is not exactly like them.
there is just something about these boys of ours. . .that makes me have great hopes for their futures.
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