Parenting isn’t all canon balls into the deep end, amusement rides, and ice cream cones. But, man, when we’re able to enjoy a week of those sugary sweet moments, it sure makes us breathe deeply and remember that parenthood also isn’t all sibling bickerings, chaotic dinners, and chores with whining.
Lazy mornings followed by lazy afternoons and time spent with each other, talking and dreaming, late nights with abbreviated bedtime routines. Lazy gets such a bad rap, does it not? Those are the images in their heads that I want to stay put, not ones of going places and doing stuff or lots of entertaining activities, but the pictures of real comfort when impromptu games of Battleship and Uno in our couch-potato attire trump a schedule and to-do lists and demands.
In 5 weeks, when my kids are asked no doubt what they did this summer, I hope the words not much are in their answers…and maybe Uno.