This weekend we had the opportunity to spend Sunday afternoon with a family we actually lived with for almost a year. Their boys, now 10 and 13, have always been very close to our Jimmy, 9, and even Julie, also 10. With the school holiday today, we had the boys spend the night to give them all more time together and it was amazing to just watch their maturing interactions.
After watching an evening tv show together, I began getting the little kids ready for bed and, without fussing about loosing the play space the bedrooms provide, they simply asked to go play cards at the dining room table. I was shocked but immediately approved their request and they proceeded downstairs while I finished the bedtime routine with the little two.
When I arrived downstairs, I watched amazed for the next 90 minutes as they played Uno Attack like a group of ol' buddies without the bickering, fighting, yelling, and fussing I've been used to since they met 6 years ago! It is amazing watching my children grow up through all sorts of different, challenging, weird, never-ending, and wonderful phases into the people they're designed to be. I'm so thankful for our four children and for all their friends.
