Learning

I am very task oriented.

If given the chance to play with my kids or get something done, I will 90+% of the time choose the feeling of accomplishment. Partly because I love to have things finished, partly because I love the feeling of accomplishment and partly because the whole time I am playing pirates all I am thinking about is all the things I want to be getting done.

This has been a difficult realization through the parenting process.

Tonight, I was so grateful I didn’t make that choice. Kate wanted me to do her bedtime. I used to be the only one she would let do it. But she’s been in a daddy phase for a long time. Tonight she picked me.

Tomorrow is her birthday. I needed to bake her cake. I needed to make the zucchini muffins for her to share at preschool tomorrow. I needed to finish up the games for her party and wrap her presents. There was much to be done.

But, I realized this is the last time I would ever get to read my 3-year old her bedtime stories. How could I pass that up just to get things done? So I go to bed 15 minutes later, but I will always have the memory of the last night she was 3, when she asked ME to read her her stories.