Well… life has been busy lately and I’m sure there’s about 20 blogs in my mind waiting to come out but now that I sit down to write, I feel so exhausted that I just don’t think I could do any of them any justice. Instead, I’m going to share a small thing that happened tonight.

Ben works most Friday nights, so it’s just me and the kids at home. Ben usually leaves just before dinner, so the kids and I will have dinner, get ready for bed and then we’ll have a movie night with popcorn before bed. So, that’s what we did tonight. Alexander and Lincoln chose to watch the Descendents 2 movie and Hope was watching and dancing along with some and when she wasn’t watching, she was playing.

With about ten minutes left of the movie, Hope had wandered away and a minute later, I could hear her whinging just a little so off I went to see what was wrong.

To my surprise, she had taken herself to bed and she just wanted help with her blanket. I tucked her in, kissed her goodnight and went back to finish the movie with the boys. Ten mins later when I took the boys to bed, she was fast asleep.

It’s not a huge thing, but it surprised me. She’s never done that before. It goes to show that she has an understanding of how she is feeling. She knew she was tired and she knows where to go when she’s tired. As I said, it’s just a small thing, but it made me smile.