Independence and Carousels

Last week Olivia and I spent Tuesday-Saturday in Birmingham helping Granddaddy and Nonie pack. Well, really I helped them purge and packed only a little! Olivia was a champ all week spending most of Tuesday, all of Wednesday and Friday entertaining her self among the boxes, playing the Nook or watching PBS. On Thursday though her sweet Grandaddy took her and spent the morning and part of the afternoon at the children’s museum there in Birmingham and Nelda and I got their kitchen and laundry room cleaned out and packed. Whew!!! And then we took her to the mall Friday evening to ride the carousel. We worked like maniacs for 4 days but had a blast doing it!!

I had to leave James and Audrey in the care of their father for the mornings and evenings and I prepared them as best I could. I bought all throw away dishes and utensils for breakfast and supper. Stocked them up on their favorite lunch and snack supplies along with zip lock bags to pack their lunches and snacks in. I even bought them an alarm clock. LOL!! They were beyond excited to get one and to use it and Jon said they were up and at ‘em every morning when it went off! They fixed their own breakfast (cereal of course) packed their lunches, got dressed and were ready to go by the time their daddy was. (I may or may not of scared them into submission by mentioning the fact that daddy wouldn’t mind making them go to school in their pajamas!) and I was so proud of them! Perhaps slightly wounded that they didn’t seem to miss me or anything but at the same time so proud that they are becoming so independent. It’s what we are striving for, right? :)

However, last night as I was putting them to bed I went to set their alarm clock and they both screamed “NO!!!!! Will you PLEASE come wake us up?!” James said “Yeah, that alarm clock is SO LOUD and made me jump every morning!” And Audrey said “Yeah and can you scratch our backs like you always do?” :) I will admit I was slightly relieved to know they aren’t completely independent of me yet! >>insert smiling heart eyes emoji here<<