Today as we were rearranging furniture Clari needed some sort of distraction. Not that her help isn't wonderful (at times), but lets be real furniture plus a toddler just isn't a good idea. I remembered that I still had MALA Drawing Paper Roll from IKEA in a box somewhere and that it had Clari's name written all over it. Granted it took me 15 minutes of digging through boxes in our "office" AKA the room that gets every box or item that doesn't have a home yet. The entire time I was looking Clari is at the top of the basement stairs yelling "Hello! Mommy!"
I almost gave up looking, but then remembered that the 15 minutes of searching would be at least 30+ minutes of smiles and happiness.
It did give us 30 minutes of her coloring while we moved furniture around the for what seemed like the billionth time. But it ended up giving us even more. After dinner, clean-up, bath time, and evening call to her Nene and Papa, I found all 3 of us surrounded around the paper roll coloring and laughing. It was probably the first time since we moved in (unfortunately) that we were relaxing and not talking about the house, but enjoying our sweet little one and each other. From Ryan trying to show off his drawing skills from years ago, tracing each other's hands, reading through all 64 crayons and talking about our favorites to Clari deciding that sitting on Ryan's shoulder while coloring was the only way to go, it was pure happiness. It quickly reminded me that sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses or in the case of our family, stop and just color.
Taylor
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