The sweetest little boy...

So, just as I was leaving for work, Oliver woke up and told me that for his birthday he would like to go without presents (a big sacrifice as he asked for a bike---he learned to ride without training wheels this summer) and would just like it if I came to his school to help with small groups. Easy enough! I've been given permission to go over when I have prep time as it is in the same district I work in and I've just been waiting to get a time from the teacher to go in. That will be so much cheaper than a bike...though we'll probably get him one of those too.

Then, I got home from work early and went with Ben to pick him up from school and on the way out Ben told him there was a surprise waiting for him. Oliver said, "Is it that mom is home?" Ben replied that it was even better (of course...I was in the car! Who wouldn't love that surprise?). Oliver's reply, "Nothing is better than mom being home." He's such a delightful little thing and definitely knows how to make us happy.

We're also on three nights in a row of family dinners...it's so much easier to do these things when I'm not in class until 10 at night...domestic bliss is mine this semester!