Come Away With Me (and Schooling update below)

Come away with me in the night

Come away with me

And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus

Come away where they can't tempt us

With their lies

I want to walk with you

On a cloudy day

In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high

So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss

On a mountaintop

Come away with me

And I'll never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain

Falling on a tin roof

While I'm safe there in your arms

So all I ask is for you

To come away with me in the night

Come away with me -Norah Jones

Today I had the sweetest moment with my eldest son, Caleb.

Caleb is often called our "wiggle worm," and he has "ants in his pants." He is also NOT a snuggler. So often, I long to snuggle him and hold him close, but since birth, he has been telling me, wordlessly, "DON'T fence me in!" Caleb loves to be on the move!!!

And while I thought that kids started rejected their parents around the preteen years, Caleb started at the ripe age of 28 months by telling me, "Want mommy go back inside?" when he was playing with his babysitter out on our deck.

So, today, I was about to resist my urge (as usual) to pick him up and hold him, since I knew he would just jolt and wiggle until he got away...... But, I didn't resist. I gave it a try.
I picked him up, and started singing him this song by Norah Jones. This song never gets tiresome to me, and it is always classy, pure, and timelessly special.

Caleb held on.

Caleb put his head on my shoulder.

And we spun around and around as I sang.

Those 2 minutes

will last forever.

Just born.

One month.

One year.

One and a half years.

Two years.

Three, next month.

Come away with me, little one. And I'll never stop loving you.