The Important Things in Life

What is important to some is not necessarily important to others. As I type this I am thinking of what is important to each member of my family.

I myself find the health and well being of my family at the top of my priority list. Things such as safety, healthy eating, keeping a clean house - theses things are very important to me. As is the happiness of my family. I love to see my beautiful children laugh and play, being happy and healthy. That is important to me.

Craig is focused on providing for us all, providing security, strength and a stable home. Also important to him are the weekends where he gets to have fun with his family. I love him for that. he doesn't look forward to the weekends so he can go out drinking, go down the pub or head off on a boys weekend (though I have no doubt he does look forward to doing these things too). He looks forward to taking Jaz to the park, taking us all to the beach or just out for the day. Sometimes we cannot wait till the weekend and have a midweek picnic dinner or head to the shops just to wander around and get an ice cream for the kids (and me, ohhh how I do love ice cream).

Kayde only has a few things that are important to him. Mummy and Boobies, Daddy and Jaz.
boobies rate number one in Kayde's importance ranking. 5.45am this morning it was booby time... And next to mummy snuggled up close is where he stayed until Daddy left for work shortly after 7.30!

If Mummy goes away for any longer than about 10 seconds he starts yelling and trying to find her. If he cannot find her, crying ensues, quickly followed by hysterics and even vomiting! Jaz is also very important to Kayde, he follows her around, a little like that little jumping dog in the Looney Tunes cartoons.... If she dares close a door between him and her a tantrum soon follows - especially when she is cheeky enough to close the glass sliding door, trapping him inside while she plays on the other side of it! Kayde also loves pulling Jaz's hair and 'sharing' everything she has or wants - Jaz is not so thrilled about this!

Next on Kayde's list is Daddy, when daddy comes home from work you can hear Kaydes hands slap on the ground and his little legs scootin across the floor as he makes a mad crawl for the front door. He just loves his dad, blowing raspberries on him and giving big gummy laughs at every opportunity.

What is important to Jaz is a whole nother board game - Pre Schoolers have a whole different take on the world and what is important!

6am (after getting up 15 minutes earlier to drag Kayde into my bed for an early morning feed and cuddle)

Jaz "Mum! Mum! Muuuuuum!" (calling from her bed)
Me "Yes Jaz?" (calling back from under my snugly warm doona while feeding Kayde)
Jaz "Mum it's important, come in here, please come in here noooowwwww"
Me "No, you come in here" (clearly not very obliging at this time of the morning am I?)
Jaz "But you HAVE to come here"
Me "whhhyyyyyy?" (major whining voice used here - who is the child again?)
Jaz "But Mum, there's a shadow and it's in my room! There really is!!!" (excited voice not scared)
Me "Umm, cool!!!??? But that's ok, I will have a look at it later ok?"
Jaz "no Mummy, it's important! There really is a shadow in my room!"

Clearly we have different ideas of important - especially first thing in the morning. Also important to Jaz is singing songs, all sorts of songs, songs that she has learnt and songs about what she is currently doing. Many songs come with dances, dancing is very important to Jaz. As are all her favourite things, from her favourite show (whatever is on that I will let her watch) to her favourite toy (whichever one she is playing with at the time).

Importance differs from person to person. I guess as my children are of the utmost importance to me then so too are shadows and dancing and songs and hair pulling :) Oh the lovely things in life.