Wish I Could Come

The kids were spending the night at Grandma Veldings and Ethan and I had "date night." It was decided that I would pick Maddie up at Grandma's the next morning at 9am to take her to my friend, Heather's, marathon race. She seemed anxious to go and I knew she could keep up with me if we had to run etc. Had our bag packed with some warm clothes as the temps would be in the 40's. Date night was wonderful and on our way home I called the kids to say goodnight to them. Maddie talked first and said they were laying in bed watching Wizards of Waverly Place--the new one. I asked if Aidan was asleep yet and she said no. She put him on the phone for me. "Hi honey" was what I said and he asked where we were, what we were doing right now and I told him. Then I told him Daddy would pick him up in the morning and he asked where Maddie and I would be. I explained we were going to watch a race. With a little bit of hesitation all he said was "wish I could come." Those words were all I needed to hear to make the decision that he was coming too. It might not be as "easy" as if it were just Maddie and I but sometimes "easy" is not what great memories are all about anyway.
The kids did great that day...the bickering really didn't start until we walked in the door on our way home:)