This week both Evan and Cal are on vacation from their schools, so they’re spending a few days at their grandma’s so I can go to work. Eli will be the only kid at the house, which hasn’t happened since, oh, 2006.
We’ve got some fun stuff planned. I’ll be working during the mornings, but the afternoons are reserved for the pool, the movies (his first one!), and maybe even going out to eat. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun (and spectacularly easy) to just have one kid around. It will be good for Eli to have his parents all to himself. It will be good for the parents to NOT have to get up with Evan at 6:02 AM like we do every single morning.
Sometimes I feel badly for Eli that he didn’t get to be the only kid for very long. Only 13 months, in fact, so obviously he doesn’t remember a time when there wasn’t a brother or two to compete with. He is a really well-behaved child when he doesn’t have any competition. I think we’ll have a fun few days.
And although Evan and Cal are a LOT of work, I kind of miss ‘em already.
I love having the kids by themselves for a time – gives them an extra boost and gives me a bit of one too (one kids seems easy-peasy after doing more than one day in and day out)… plus it is so neat to see the kiddo’s personality when they are on their own. A glimpse into their future selves I think. Enjoy!
Oh. This made me happy (for you and Eli) and a little sad, too.
One kid is sooo peaceful…and I only have two. Enjoy your one on one time with your big guy.
(I also feel like writing some snarky comment so that you don’t miss them on this post…maybe something along the lines of the fact that just because this is your blog doesn’t mean you are entitled to YOUR opinions. Please clear them with the internets first or at least the people who are going to misinterpret them).
Enjoy that one on one time!
Make some memories.