affirming.

We have a little set of frames by our front door where we all can write each other little love notes throughout the day. Little words of thanks or appreciation or adoration. We put it in our main hallway where it would be visible all day, every day. Jeremy and I exchange little notes to each other, and notes to the kids. They love it. They stare at it. They ask us to read it to them over and over again.

And then yesterday I found Parker and Everly with a stool they pushed over from the kitchen, wiping off each other's old words from Jeremy and I and writing little notes to each other. Parker has learned to write (a lot!) since the beginning of the year. He read it to Ev and she smiled and held his hand and then had him wait with his eyes closed for her to finish. She wrote a series of hearts, each one meaning something different as she pointed to them and told him "Love, hug, kiss, friend, playing with you". Ah, such cuteness.