Snow, snow, snow! The children are in heaven. :D
I, on the other hand, am going a bit stir-crazy. The amount of snow we received was a bit stifling. Just about 20 inches all at once. On a positive note, the Great Lakes really need the snow to add to the dwindling lake levels. Where is all the water going? Good question.
The Bean
The other night, she was sitting on my lap while we were filling out Valentine’s. Yes. She already has friends to send Valentine’s to. (From daycare, lol.) We were working; well I was working while she was playing with a PEZ Elvis. A stolen PEZ Elvis. My oldest son decided a few years ago that he wanted to start now “collecting” things that may be worth money someday. I suppose I am the one that started it by getting him a Michigan State University basketball signed by MSU coach Tom Izzo. He has left it in the box and stared at it longingly ever sense. Well, the following year he invested in an Elvis PEZ collection in a tin case…set of four. It included Army Elvis, White jumpsuit Elvis etc. He did not have the Elvis collection is a safe place though (since the Bean learned to climb) and she happened to get it down, open it and proceeded to play with all the Elvis’s.
Part way between our, I mean my, card labeling she decides I need to add Elvis’s name to the cards.
“Mom, mom. Write my name and Elvis’s name. Because we are together. Right Elvis?” Some parental part of me is so glad that the first guy she is “together” with also happens to be dead.
Since I didn’t really have a mother during the formative later years of my childhood and into my teens, a side of me is so very apprehensive about The Bean. I worry about messing up when she gets older, not having good advice, doing the wrong things, and letting her down. I suppose it is my biggest parenting fear. I guess we will both have to get through it together and I know I’ll do my best. I also know that she will never go to bed wondering if I love her. I’ll do that right, at least.
Enjoy winter readers!
