Keeping their Hearts.....

My husband will tell you that he has tried and tried to get me to pack his lunch our whole marriage and put little love notes in them.  Apparently that's what his mom did for his dad every day for like 30 years.  Don't get me wrong, it's sweet, but I told him if he wanted that he should have married his mom!  lol.  Okay, so school started and for the first time ever Sweet Boy is packing a lunch, I mean, I am packng his lunch of course.  So I took the opportunity to leave little notes for my kids each day.  As Sally Clarkson would say, I'm taking the opportunity to breath words of life into them.  Sweet Boy's on the first day of school said something about having a good day, that sort of thing.  Twinkle Toes doesn't mention her note at all.  I'm not even sure she read it, but Sweet Boy comes home from school and tells me that it was the best lunch ever and would I pack him another one just like it?  And then he tells me that he really liked the note I put in there.  He said he "liked it so much he had to read it twice."  And then he hugs my neck and kisses my cheek.  Okay, THAT's why I call him Sweet Boy. 

Today in Twinkle Toe's lunch I told her, "Don't be somebody you're not just to be cool.  Be yourself!  You're great just the way you are.  Love, Mom"  She's having the whole friend issues that normal kids have.  It's hard when you haven't been at a school and most of the other people already know one another and have established friendships.  So she is sort of dealing with all of that.   Caleb is too, but he told me he just went up to this one boy (he wants to be friends with), asked him if he wanted to be friends, and he said, "yes!"  Problem solved! 

Anyways, a couple of girls in her class have been harassing her on the playground chasing her around telling her they are half vampire/half werewolf.  We had the discussion about it and I told her those things don't exist.  So today after school she tells me, "Mom, I didn't even run when those girls came up to me.  I told them vampires and werewolves don't exist and I was done running.  And besides, there is a duty teacher on the playground and if they try to bite me I will go tell."  I love that girl.  Her sass comes in handy sometimes.