errands with mommy

when mason was just over a year old, we opted not to decorate for christmas. he was in the stage where they are into EVERYTHING and we knew that he wouldn't remember whether we decorated or not that year, so we sort of skipped christmas. not the birth and celebration of christ part; just the pull all the decorations out of the attic and spend days putting it all up, part. honestly, it was lovely. i did miss the twinkling christmas tree in the corner of the room, but i didn't miss the production of putting up and taking down decorations. and i certainly didn't miss telling mason he couldn't touch anything and making sure the tree didn't fall down on top of him.

fast forward four years. we have another little one, this one will be turning ONE in just 4 more days (aghh! that's another post on where the heck did the time go?!) clearly, with a very excited 4 year old, we can't just skip christmas this year. but we also can't put up all the glass ornaments we've had for the last 12 years.

to make our tree a little more child-friendly, i had a few stores i needed to run to today. brad was awake (he's working nights this week), so i thought "yay! i can go by myself and get everything done in record time!" i hurried to the car and was on my way.

i made it about 10 minutes down the road when my phone beeped. and this photo arrived as a text message.

it turns out little bit had been crying by the front door since i left. the whole time. 

needless to say, my heart broke and i turned around to retrieve her. she stopped crying as soon as i picked her up and for the next 2.5 hours of errand-running, she was as happy and cooperative as could be. apparently she just needed her momma. 

love this girl. and while there are very few moments that i have to myself these days, i wouldn't give up this unexpected alone time with her for the world.