After the Blissdom Canada conference early last month, my son was looking through some of the items that made their home in my swag bag. A little red notebook and some pencils fell out of the Timspiration package from Tim Hortons.
“Can I have these?” he asked
“Sure Buddy” I replied
and during that very moment our entire night time routine would be changed for the better.
My husband and I tucked the boys into bed that night and crawled into bed ourselves to watch some television. Soon after, small footsteps arrived by the side of my bed with a delivery.
“This is for you” he shyly said, not sure whether he was going to get into trouble for being out of bed. I said thank you and he excitedly gave me a hug and ran back to his room.
I looked at the little note filled with heart drawings, two stick figures hugging, one small, one big and a special message saying ‘I love you Mom’. It warmed my heart.
The same routine followed every night. Love notes for mom, love notes for dad and on the rare occasion there would be a special note for the brothers.
The notes were unique and special for the day, ‘thank you for letting me watch that movie tonight mom’, ‘I loved how you made that cake and icing’, ‘I wish daddy was home so we can play with him’.
It was evident that this was not some typical bed time stalling, he put thought and care into each note and each funny stick figure picture.
He started to bring me an extra piece of paper so I could write him a note in return. I promised him that if he fell asleep, he would find a message when he woke up!
I drew him funny coded messages such as an eye, a heart and the letter U, for ‘I love you’. He found this hysterical and created his own.
” I love you like Hiccup loves Toothless” I wrote to him, using our favourite viking characters for reference, he made fun of my attempts to draw the dragon and sent me the same message with his own version of the drawing the following night.
And on and on it went. Night after night, we delivered each other secret letters of love. He expressed himself in a way I never knew he could and we created a whole new bond with eachother. It’s amazing what can start from one simple notebook.
One by one, the pages are torn from the book and it pulls on my heart strings knowing our bedtime notes are coming to an end.
Maybe Santa will deliver a special notepad in his stocking this year.
What a wonderful story – so touching and so creative. I love how special traditions evolve.
What a beautiful and special story about your son. Definitely something worth remembering and keeping!!
I’ll definitely hang on to a couple forever, right now I still have them all in my nightstand! they are so cute to look back on
I love this. What an awesome idea. It would make a fantastic scrapbook idea too!
I’ll have to save a few good ones for his baby book!
oh my goodness… this is one of the cutest stories! What a sweetheart 🙂
Oh wow 🙂 Beautiful! Do make sure you tuck some of these away for the boys to see when they are older 🙂
I definitely will!
Wow! That’s SO sweet! You’re one fortunate Mom 🙂
OMG, I love this so much! I hope that I get love notes from my boys one day!
who would have thought right?
Oh wow Jennifer that is one special little man you have there. My little guy has started to do something very similar, mostly with drawings, but it makes my heart burst every single time he gives me a picture <3
Suz
kids drawings are so cute!
What a heartwarming story. Children do and say the darnest things and make us smile – don’t they.
I love that! When I was young and my dad travelled for work, I would stick notes in his suitcase!
oh I love that, I bet that was really sweet for him while he was away.
That is so so sweet. So adorable. My daughter was also enchanted with the notebooks I brought home from Bliss. She didn’t do start anything so unique though. Just seriously and intently drawing her way through the pages, so that come Christmas I knew a new notebook would be the perfect gift.
I would never have thought that those notebooks would be so interesting for the kids! It’s great to see them come up with fun uses for them!