Saturday Night

The past couple of Saturday nights we’ve let the boys eat their dinner in the family room while watching a video. They go to bed so early (anywhere from about 6:15, to 7:00 at the very latest), and we’re usually out and about on Saturdays and don’t want to take the time to make a family dinner, and we don’t let them watch videos on ‘school days’ so Saturday videos are a big deal for K & O. Plus– Braydon and I like to eat together on Saturdays after they go to bed. 😉 So we let them do this a couple of Saturdays in a row… and for K & O, once something happens twice in a row it instantaneously becomes set in stone forever as a beloved ritual. For better or for worse, this Saturday-night-eating-in-the-family-room-while-watching-a-video is now something we seem to “do.” They like to sit very close together, so that they are touching, whenever possible. It is really cute. Tomorrow we will take down our Christmas tree, Kyle’s much-loved-lawn “blow up”, and all of the other Christmas decorations. This is very, very sad for K & O. I’m ready to get it all cleaned up, but at the same time, I am sad about it too. Tonight right before Owen got into his bed, he looked out the boys’ bathroom window at our “blow up” and our “Hallelujah lights” and whispered, “Night Nights Blow up! Night Nights Hallelujah lights! You are so beautiful! Tomorrow you go in a box in the basement! I love you! I can’t wait for next year! Night Nights!”