He's Home For Summer!

We picked up S this last Saturday, June 29th. I am so happy to have my kids all home, under one roof.

S practically ran into my arms with a huge smile, and hugged me so tight. I looked at his face and he had tears coming out of his eyes. On a 16 year old boy. He was so happy to be back with his family. He had been waiting to be with the people who love him dearly.

At home, we all sat down on the ground to rough house and my daughter just wanted to be in his lap, arms wrapped around his neck, and her little face muzzled into the side of his neck while chanting over and over again his name. It made my heart so happy that she very obviously remembered him so well, but yet how much she has missed him. They've been pretty inseparable. He is so amazing with her...I could watch them wrestle and laugh for hours. Have I mentioned how much I love his long goodnight and goodmorning hugs and "I love yous"? Just the best! And the way he still lights up when my husband comes home from work and jumps up to hug him.

Today, S was playing with my daughter in the play room(entertaining her) and next thing I know, they are laying side by side, she's twiddling his eyelashes, leg wrapped around his waist, his arm around her, both crashed out. Gosh, I love them.

S brought a cold with him and he is pretty miserable right now. I am praying he gets better quickly and that we all stay well.

S is taller. He has leg hair. A 6 pack, ripped body. Broader shoulders. A deeper voice. And his face looks older. He's changed so much in 5.5 months and I feel like I am missing out on so much. He's so handsome, he's really becoming a teenager. I need this boy to be home for good, to teach him and mold him into a Jesus-loving, good man who makes good choices. A good husband. And father. April can't come soon enough.

We get almost 7 weeks with our boy, verses the 3 we had over winter and I couldn't be happier...a happy momma heart. I just love knowing he's home, that I can mother him from home, and not from a helpless place, across a pond.

I will love and cherish every minute of every day with this kid for the next several weeks. Even the rough times, because atleast he's HOME.