We arrived today into Pensacola. Christmas is being spent with TGOO, Mom, and my siblings. Mo is bringing her Beau as well. Bones is still grappling with the whole "Morrigan is getting married" thing.
Last night we spent in Gainesville, Florida, at a Holiday Inn. In an effort to help the boys sleep more comfortably, I'd reserved a roll-a-way bed. When we arrived, we were informed the bed was so disgusting, the hotel wouldn't rent it out. Blech.
So the three boys squished into the double bed, and invariably that leads to much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth as to who kicked whom, and who rolled over the other, and who's elbow landed in who's back.
The first thing in the morning, getting a jump in the 'I slept poorly because my brother did the following awful thing to me while he was sleeping' song that we have grown to know so well, my husband said to the boys, "Boys. You would NOT believe what it was like to sleep with your Mom last night! Do you know... she jabbed a TOE up my NOSE!"
The boys stared at him.
"It's true", he continued, "she tossed and turned and rolled all over me and she punched me in the forehead. She jabbed that toe in my nose and I wasn't able to sleep at all!"
Eh... the tossing and turning, yeah, that's true. I hurt so bad at night when I sleep, I move constantly. But the rest, it was funny.
Finally Bones said very quietly, "She did? You know Dad, when Mom sleeps with me, she kisses me all night and is so sweet. Mom is very gentle when she sleeps with me."
I couldn't quit laughing. We both laughed actually.
You wonder sometimes what your children will remember. I love laying next to my boys at night, kissing the tops of the heads or keeping my lips pressed against their foreheads while they sleep, stroking their hair. I call it, "Inhaling my children."
I love how they smell, freshly bathed, when they sleep.
I love listening to their sleepy noises.
I love how angelic they look while slumbering.
And it was heart warming to know... that Bones seems to realize it. "Mom is very gentle when she sleeps with me."
That's because Mom is busy taking it all in... knowing one day it will come to an end.
It goes so quickly.
Posted by Boudicca at December 23, 2006 12:03 AM | TrackBackSmart kid. Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and ours.
Posted by: Sgt Hook at December 23, 2006 12:11 AMYes, he remembers the gentleness and the sweetness. But I guarantee you, to his friends, it's going to be "my mom tosses and turns so much, she put her toe up my dad's nose"...or something to that effect.
Posted by: Sissy at December 23, 2006 09:51 AM... a toe?!?... goodness.... yeah, he'll remember that one for a while!...
... Merry Christmas to all at the House of Bou from Tennessee!...
Posted by: Eric at December 23, 2006 10:21 AMI think Sissy's got it right.
He used to think of you as very gentle while he slept, but from now on you'll be the mom with your toe up Dad's nose.
Ah, nothing better than inhaling the kids. Although it's difficult to remind yourself of that when you have a 3-month-old who *you think* may be teething because she is fussier than ever, chewing her hands and drooling all over. And it is worst between the hours of 2 and 5am.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Jody at December 24, 2006 10:47 AM