Many families woke up this morning to pajama clad children rubbing the sleep from their eyes as mommies and daddies, took turns scooping up babies and starting breakfast. They brewed coffee and passed the syrup, poured orange juice and cajoled oatmeal into tiny people. They refereed bickering over the last chocolate chip pancake and washed dishes.
For most families, this type of Sunday morning is just the usual or a little more hurried if they're heading to church. For our family, it was a rare occasion. We all woke pretty much together and made pancakes and eggs. We drank coffee and sat at the table like a real family.
Later today, we ate dinner at the table too. We talked and laughed. Then daddy gave the baby a bath. We all took turns with hot baths while daddy created his dessert. We had spiced poached pears with cinnamon sugar almond coated ice cream and watched a family movie.
The movie is almost over now and it occurred to me that today was a pretty special day for us. While most people can have this kind of Sunday every week, we probably get one of these a few times a year during deployments, maybe two. During the summers Chad is home, which is the most we ever get the boys, we might have 7 of these kind of Sundays at the most.
It is hard not to take the people we love for granted, but when you can actually count the days, it sometimes makes it easier, easy like Sunday mornings together, to remember how special they really are.
For most families, this type of Sunday morning is just the usual or a little more hurried if they're heading to church. For our family, it was a rare occasion. We all woke pretty much together and made pancakes and eggs. We drank coffee and sat at the table like a real family.
Later today, we ate dinner at the table too. We talked and laughed. Then daddy gave the baby a bath. We all took turns with hot baths while daddy created his dessert. We had spiced poached pears with cinnamon sugar almond coated ice cream and watched a family movie.
The movie is almost over now and it occurred to me that today was a pretty special day for us. While most people can have this kind of Sunday every week, we probably get one of these a few times a year during deployments, maybe two. During the summers Chad is home, which is the most we ever get the boys, we might have 7 of these kind of Sundays at the most.
It is hard not to take the people we love for granted, but when you can actually count the days, it sometimes makes it easier, easy like Sunday mornings together, to remember how special they really are.
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