Mama said there would be days like this...

My sweet little boys are now 23 months and 5 months old.  I had only left Colton once for a weekend and I had never left Sam before last weekend.  My dear, sweet, wonderful and brave parents decided to take on the task of watching my beloved angels so that I could go to New Orleans for the weekend with my friends.

Now, prior to going on this trip, my sweet mother always had lots of advice for me concerning my busy boys.  The advice ranged from cleaning house to discipline to the boys' personal cleanliness.  I will give you just a small example of the things I hear on a weekly basis.

"Sarah, you know you could keep a cleaner house if you had Colton help you pick up his toys.  He would love to pick up his own toys - you could even make a game out of it!"
"Sarah, you need to keep EVERYTHING that he can get into completely out of his reach, that way he can't destroy anything."
"What do you mean you don't have time to bathe Sam everyday?  He loves his little bath and you need to make time to do it."
"If Colt is doing something wrong, just say 'no, no Colt' and he'll stop doing it."

I left for New Orleans last Friday and knowing that my babies were in wonderful and capable hands, I left easily without worry.   I called several times over the weekend and got the usual updates, the boys were eating this, sleeping there, etc.  They (my parents) were a little out of breath each time I called, but nothing major.

Well, when I came back on Sunday, after my sweet little Colt jumped into my arms kissing and hugging me, I got a different report.  Reassuring me that they LOVED my boys with all of their being (and I confirm this to be true), they proceeded to tell me a few things about my babies.

"Colt is a little tornado.  Not just a tornado, but a T-O-R-N-A-D-O, because he literally destroys everything in his path."
"You can't make a game out of picking up his toys or the things he wants to destroy, it just won't work like that."
"He gets up in the middle of the night and walks down the hall saying 'Ooh Toodles!' and you have to jump out of bed to get him."
"Sam is just the sweetest little thing in the world, but you CANNOT put him down and when you do, he gets mad!"

After listening to the new opinions of my babies, I sat back just a little bit satisified, because someone, just someone knows what I do on a daily basis.  Now don't get me wrong, GG and Papa had JUST as many stories about how adorable the boys were, but I do have to admit, I was glad that they got to see what a day in the Skinner household was really like.

So as I trip over Mickey Mouse to get to the sink, where the remote control was thrown into a pot of water, where I soaking pacifiers that were thrown into the ashes in the fireplace, I stop to take in every single second of my crazy life, because I know in a blink of an eye, I'll long for days like this again.