Great kids!

Just had to share this picture...all three are smiling...I was starting to think that would never happen! In honour of a full sibling smile I will do my randoms on the great things about having kids...admittedly these are the great things about my kids...yours are great too, um...I'm sure.

1. No more than 10 seconds after a screaming fight with each other they are willing to defend each other. Doesn't matter how they were going to sell their sibling to travelling gypsies moments ago...they always have each other's back.

2. How positively angelic do they look when they are asleep?

3. The look on their little faces when you tell someone how good they were at something. Not only are you proud of them...you are proud enough to tell someone else!

4. While occasionally they repeat the words you wish they hadn't heard, once in a while they say the right things...Meg and Lily were playing the other day and when Lily fell Meg was right in there,"Oh sweetie!, Are you OK? It's alright now...up we go..." Damn, it was cute.

5. When they are sick you become superhuman. In true Jasper Cullen style, just being in the room with you makes them feel better.

6. You are a veritable font of information to your children. No one in this world...or their right minds...think I am half as smart as my kids think I am.

7. The unlimited access to the super-soft-baby-cheek as they drift to sleep in your arms.

8. The purest form of humour is the innocent humour of children. They have no idea how funny they are. If they knew it wouldn't be half as funny!

9. Hannah is a defender of justice and any time I see her rooting for the underdog, standing up for the little guy or ensuring the play is fair my buttons burst with pride. It gives me a bit of confidence that we haven't done a half bad job ;)

10. Ironically, my children each in their own way--without knowing it-- have healed my wounds, kissed me better when I was down, told me they loved me more than anything else...and meant it, made me laugh harder than anything else, made me cry with joy, and made me into a woman I never dreamed I would be...for that and a million other reasons...I absolutely love my kids!