Hugs and Kisses

A few weeks ago Brian was outside doing yard work. Both Brice and Brianna love to help with what ever they can. Brian was blowing the leaves with the leaf blower and trying to clear everything up & make it look nice so that 15 minutes later it could all fall again! Brice had come inside to take his nap and I was inside doing my dreaded chores... the worst cleaning the bathrooms. A typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. We had dinner, read books, brushed teeth, Brianna took her vitamins, put chap stick on and we headed down to tuck the kids to bed. We gave our hugs and kisses telling the kids how much we love them and appreciate all of the hard work they did that day and tucked them in "nice an a cozy" as Brice would say.

When we came back down to the living room, Brian told me a story that made my heart melt. As he and Brianna were outside working, they came to the water meter. Brianna inquisitively asked Brian what it was. Now, Brian went into this big long speech about what exactly a water meter is, and then went into the fact that we pay for water. He told her that when we water the grass, do dishes, take showers, brush our teeth, flush the toilet, etc. that it costs us money. Mind you this is during our Country's good old economic crisis... so I'm sure he babbled more than he normally would have about how much things cost. He said that Brianna was silent, just listening to him go on and on while they continued to work. Once he was done talking about it, she paused for a minuted and said "Daddy, it sure is a good thing that hugs and kisses are free, because I like to have a lot of them."

It was one of those moments that really puts life into perspective for you. We have a great life, filled with love and happiness. Everyone is healthy and we can lean on one another to get us through any little bump in the road. That is of course as long as we have "Hugs and Kisses"