Thursday, December 10, 2009

Can you feel the love?

Every morning, you guys get up and ask for gummi bears.  Years from now, when you read this and run your tongue over any fillings,  I give you full permission to call and yell at me about giving you kids sugary snacks that stick to your teeth.  Yes, I've heard the warnings and read the articles that the snack industry is trying to disprove (goldfish crackers are bad for you???) but I have a very good reason. 

Because every morning you girls get up individually or in a pack and come down to ask for your gummi vitamins. In the quiet of the morning, you descend like a delicate herd of elephants to kiss me good morning and remind me to give you your vitamins. I usually wait until all of you have come down so that every one gets theirs and no one filches the remaining piles of gummis on the counter- this morning was no exception. 

Eleanor woke up at 5:30 this morning and conned your father into thinking that she was going to drift back to sleep if he let her get into bed with me and snuggle. Ha. Fat chance.  Then Grace came down around 6:30 to watch the news with us. My response to your several requests for vitamins was to remind you that we would have vitamins when Jordan was awake and came downstairs. 

Twenty minutes later I could feel the bond of sisterhood when Jordan came round the corner in her footie pajamas and Grace and Eleanor started with their joyful morning greetings of "Good morning Jordan! You're awake! You're awake! That means we get our gummi bears!" 

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