I've been gone a lot lately, and the kiddos are starting to feel it. Between Weight Watchers, preschool meetings, and work, there have been more dinners made by Daddy and eaten without Mommy, than there have been meals with her. So when I got home last night, D was working hard at the kitchen table on a project. Turns out Noah, our eldest, has been asking every night for D to make him a card and to draw his own picture in it so Noah could, "Know Daddy loves him and see what he looks like." 

A few months ago, when we instituted a policy that Noah had to stay in his room until his alarm clock went of rather than running around the house in the wee hours of the morning (I am SO not a morning person), he started getting really upset. Turned out he wanted to be sure that he could say goodbye to Daddy when he left for work. Our compromise was that D would write him a note every day, and Noah would stay in his room. But months have gone by without him needing it, so I thought we were beyond that. I guess maybe my being gone so much in the last few weeks may have brought back some of that old insecurity. But it also brought out D's inner artist, so it wasn't all bad. 

By the way, he's not really cross-eyed in real life. =-)