Jeremy's continuing series entitled Hey Dads...You Matter!, a collection of articles reviewing important research on parenting - especially fatherhood, is now available as an eBook.
My heart aches. I have just come downstairs from putting my twin 2.5 year (32 month) olds to bed and my heart hurts. They aren’t screaming or crying or calling my name. No, my beautiful children are lying in bed falling asleep silently. While I feel a tremendous sense of pride that –considering everything we have been through in the past couple of months - they are falling asleep in their beds on their own, I am sad. This is my favorite part of the day and yet it is over too quickly. Just when my children are their most delicious I find myself having to leave them. A part of me doesn’t want to walk out the door, a part of me misses my boy crying that he doesn’t want me to leave, misses my girl needing me to calm her down, misses hearing that they want to lie down with me to fall asleep.