Mommy-Daughter Time.

My #1 girl was on Fall Break this past week.  You'd think that we would have had tons of time to spend together, just me and her, but that was not the case.  Between a road trip to the grandparents home in Oklahoma (actually the reason for the trip was for Tom and I to FINALLY go see U2, about which I could write a whole different post), and the general running around, mommy-daughter time was pretty scarce.  

You see, we got really spoiled over the first 4 years of her life.  It was just me and her during the days...we had all the time in the world.  The weekdays were spent doing fun things together like the park, story time at the library, play group and playdates, coloring, painting, baking together and reading stories.  Big brother came along 4 years and 4 days into her life, then little brother 19 months later.  Since then she has started elementary school.  Between school runs, naps, nursing the baby, doing the shopping, ballet class, violin lessons, laundry, dishes and cooking, I just don't have nearly as much time with her as I would like.  I often feel guilty about that.  I try to have special time with all three of the kids, but how can I fit it all in?  It seems like I just need to resign myself to the fact that there will never be enough hours in the day, but I can't bring myself to do that.  I have hope that the situation will get better as the little brothers, become more independent.  I just hope she still wants to spend time with me at that point. 

Anyway, all to say that we took advantage of the boys' simultaneous naps today and carved the pumpkin.  We had a great time.  It was a beautiful day.  She designed the face, we both scooped and I carved.  It turned out just the way she imagined-a good thing.