Hide and Seek

 I was upstairs this afternoon, painting the kids bedroom doors, when a game of hide and seek broke out between Nathan 17, Benjamin 14, and the two littlest girls, 6 and 1.   Amelia quickly ran to hide in her room as Nathan started to count. They took turns being it, even Amelia had a turn and quickly counted to seven, before setting off to find her brothers. After a few fun games it was again Amelia’s turn to count. This time as I was painting the bathroom door I counted loudly with her all the way to 15.  Then off she ran to find her brothers again. She was in and out of the upstairs bedrooms, and could absolutely not find Nathan.  Finally Benjamin, who had been found  decided to help her.  Soon I heard a lot of laughter coming from Nathan’s bedroom.  And then much to my delight these words. “Ben, remember that time when Emily, you and I were really little, and mom hid in this closet for almost an hour and we couldn’t find her anywhere?” “it was awesome!”  They soon came into the bathroom to make sure that I too remembered that awesome game of hide and seek many years ago.  I did remember, and the memory made me smile.  It’s the little things in life that sometimes have the greatest impact.  And the fact the my 17 year old not only remembered the long ago game of hide and seek, but thought of it as an awesome time...(our games of indoor hide and seek were held almost nightly at one point and time and they were EPIC) and he and Ben chose to spend their afternoon playing with their sisters, that brings this momma’s heart some sweet joy.💕