“It is the simple joys, the simple pleasures the heart remembers and dearly treasures.”

–Hadin Marshall

 

 

One of my favorite pass times is to study my children.  I love to watch how they play.  How they study the things around them. How they interact with people.  How Asher wants to know how everything works.  And William loves to look at his little hands as if they may dissapear and if they did he would need to remember every detail.  My favorite joy to treasure  is when it is quiet, and it isn’t too often quiet with a 17 month old and a 4 month old boys, but when it is I love to look at their little faces. 

We are always teaching. They are always learning.

“What is a home?  It is the laughter of a child, the song of a mother, the strength of a father. Home is the first school, and the first church, where they learn about a loving God.”  —Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Can you see how excited he is to help?

This is Asher helping his Daddy set up the crib for his new little brother.  Asher loves to learn and loves to help, and Asher loves his Daddy.

 

I am always surprised at what Asher is picking up and learning.  Most of the time I don’t even notice that he is  listening or paying attention,  but he is. What a responsibility I have as a parent to teach my children. I can teach them to  be lazy, or how to work hard.  I can chose to teach them to judge others, or I can teach them to love others.   I can teach them that people with disablities are just as normal as they are normal. My biggest challenge for myself is that I have always had a hard time with life not being  fair, and it never will be fair.  But I don’t want my kids to always look at the things that are unfair.  I want my kids to count the blessings that they have been given, not to be consumed with what they  haven’t been given.   Ryan and I are their first school with the ABC’s, colors, shapes and numbers.  Our home is where they learn their manners; please and thank you, and how to respect others.  And most important we are where they learn about God and His love and interest in their lives.