Reminiscing

I had a fun, albeit unproductive, afternoon today. After getting my morning work done and Cooper down for his nap, I was doing a little organizing. I found some letters that Grandma and Grandpa had sent to the kids recently and decided that I would put them in a binder right away so that they wouldn't get lost or ruined. I decided to put them in the page protectors in the back of my journal binder. Big mistake. I spent much of the afternoon reading, smiling, laughing until I almost cried at some of the funny things that the kids said and did when they were little. Reading my labor stories, first days at school, disappointments at Pinewood Derbies...it was a wonderful afternoon. One of my favorite stories that I had totally forgotten about was about Landon when he was just barely three. He was in the bathtub, and I walked in, noticed that the toilet needed to be flushed, so I flushed it and then walked back out. Suddenly I heard Landon frantically yelling for me, and hurried back in to check on him. He was looking into the toilet, yelling my name. He thought I had been flushed down the toilet! What a funny dingbatty little boy he was! Anyway, I did manage to pull myself away from the journal since I had to go visiting teaching at 2, and then picked kids up from school and then took Hayden to violin. The house is in a lot better shape tonight than it was last night, so maybe I should sit and reminisce a little every day!

I never did put those letters into the binder though!