My husband and I are really enjoying this stage of parenting- the youngest one is the happiest toddler I've ever met and his development has accelerated so much recently, the middle one is just such a thoughtful, sweet kid and her mind is pure chaos in the most ''classic kid'' kind of way where I'll look over her drawings and ask what she's illustrating and she'll blurt out something absolutely fucking insane like ''it's a spider, and it's approaching the Leprechaun, and the ''Lep'' is DEAD and also eating a fish's leg'' like it's the most normal thing in the world, and the eldest is just such a funny kid, constantly making puns that are genuinely funny and his curiosity is so much fun- I'd say that about 30 times a day, he'll come to me with one of his books and his children's dictionary and ask for us to look up something together, or ask a surprisingly complex and compelling question. SO much fun.
Lots of opportunities for gratitude lately, and I'm genuinely so happy with the life my husband and I have built and thankful for our marriage. It's kind of cliché but I married my best friend and it was the best decision I ever made, he and I were talking earlier about how we constantly see peers who are in marriages of convenience or ones where there is contempt between spouses, meanwhile he'll skip lunch at work to be back home 30 minutes earlier and I'll put myself through insane days at home between homeschooling, cleaning, errands, and general child rearing so that he can come home to a clean, comfortable, welcoming house where everything is already taken care of so that we can spend all of his off-time together.
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