It’s often said that you learn more from your children than they learn from you. The difficult part is seeing the teachings when they are presented. I’ve been working on being more cognizant and in the moment to cherish these little lessons.

I’ve had a big one recently and I’m bursting to share…

On Sunday we had our standard roast for dinner. For dessert, I decided to make a couple small cakes to serve with a custard I had just learned to make in my recent Waitrose cookery course. I heard a scuffle coming from upstairs and in my standard Mummy mode, I quickly grabbed some sprinkles and icing and called my little cake decorators downstairs. Thankfully two of them appeared and the scuffle was forgotten. They spent the next 20 minutes adding mounds of sprinkles to the cake with delight!!! It’s magical to see the excitement sprinkles can bring to their eyes.

As the cake decorating wound down, my little girl started searching for candles. My grown up self started asking questions like why did we need candles when it wasn’t someone’s birthday? Wouldn’t I need those later when it was someone’s birthday? Etc, etc? Thankfully, before I had to ask, my sweet little angel said “we are celebrating putting up the Christmas Tree”. Of course we were!

As we lit the candles and sang “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” I found myself bursting with happiness and pride.

It’s these teachings that you cherish forever!