Today my older two kids are coming home from their two week holiday in Spain with their father. As I write this they are currently airborne. For two weeks lovely fiance and I have only had the baby with us and at the beginning when I dropped the older kids off I was thinking it would be an enjoyable time and we should make the most of being just three. However as each day has gone by I realise more and more clearly how fundamental each of the kids are to our family life.
The small one seems oblivious to their absence and has simply been her normal demanding but delicious self. Lovely fiance I have no doubt has enjoyed the peace and quiet, although he's had to put up with me pining for them both. And I really should have enjoyed having the house tidy for a change and not having to turf eleven-year-old son off my laptop constantly. Nine-year-old daughter is the messiest child in the universe and I should have made the most of not having her raking through my make up and clothes as well as not having to have Disney Channel blaring Hannah Montana out on a loop.
However I have found that without them these things are what I miss most. The things that cause us to interact, admittedly the things that at times drive me up the pole. But the house has seemed quiet and too well-behaved without them and so I am filled with nothing but excitement at the prospect of collecting them later on and I am cooking roast chicken with all the trimmings (lovely fiance rolled his eyes at this as it's the middle of summer and mid-week) because it's their favourite meal and I imagine they must have lived on fried food throughout their holiday.
Give me a week and I will be snarling at them in my normal way when I have to ask son five times to do something before he actually does it, or when I find yet another outfit worn for five minutes then discarded on the floor by elder daughter. But for now let me enjoy this moment of clarity of just how much I love them both to pieces and how our lives are all the richer for their chaos.
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