When did it happen?

I realized today that in one short month another year is over. Holidays are here with Black Friday madness spilling over the borders, and my children are getting older by the moment.

The little gremlins welcomed me home with sticky faces and half pyjama-clad bodies, hungry the way only small children can be.

So I took them out without daddy, as the dishwasher had gremlins of another sort, and daddy needed alone time to tinker.

I watched as one ate the sub, one ate the olives from the sub, and another ate the bread, and wondered if there was a simple way to feed them so they’d eat in public like humans instead of wild animals.

The oldest pointed out the floor,“Wow mom, look at the food on it”, with a complete lack of insight into how it got that way.

But as I watched, they talked to each other, they shared with open hearts and laughed with each other,

tiny people with big imaginations.

And when it was time to go, the two year old held up a finger, “two seconds. Mouth full!”

I love my gremlins. They may be messy and loud, but they sure are entertaining.