"So I will dance with....Daddy sharp tooth dino's?"

Usually by the time 8pm rolls around, I am ready for my sweet boys to hit the sack so that I can relax a little bit. However, around Thanksgiving, I bought Steven Curtis Chapman's new CD, Beauty Will Rise. Let me first say, if you have not listened to this CD, you must! It is the most heartfelt, honest, Godly approach to suffering I have ever heard in music. He wrote it after the death of his daughter, Maria. And now, after having SCC share so deeply through music about the loss of his daughter, something has changed in me when bed time rolls around. I'm still ready to relax a little, but I don't say "no" when they say, "one more rock, Mommy". I don't get frustrated when Jachin calls me back there to say, "Puppa (his stuffed animal friend) has a question", or when Josiah has to roar one more time, and remind me for the thousandth time that he is a Big Daddy Sharp Tooth Dinosaur. Something in me just wants to kiss them and hug them one more time, and tell them for the thousandth time how much I love them. Tonight the boys went to bed later than normal, so we were trying to change them into their pajamas quickly. Of course, as usual, they were pretending to be dinosaurs. My husband looked at me and started singing a song from another SCC album called, "Cinderella". Except he changed the words to, "So I will dance with daddy sharp tooth dino's". Just another reminder that these times are precious, and we are not guaranteed another day. I love my little dinosaurs, and I want to take every opportunity in my words and actions to let them know that!