Sometimes I feel badly that Dave and I don't have enough hands or attention to go around. But then I remember that it is in schools such as these that our children learn how to build a civilisation of love: how to look beyond their own needs and to those of another. They will be better people because of this.
Hannah is often recruited to help out with her littlest brother. Fortunately, she is a natural born mother; or, as one friend refers to such girls as Hannah, she is a little mother. How true.
Yesterday morning I asked her to hold Isaac while I prepared Ben's and Joe's breakfasts. Isaac's crying stopped and I looked around wondering where she had taken her baby brother. Dave saw the question on my face and pointed outdoors where she was sitting on the swing with him.
How much he must love her. How much I love them both.
Sometimes I feel badly that Dave and I don't have enough hands or attention to go around. But then I remember that it is in schools such as these that our children learn how to build a civilisation of love: how to look beyond their own needs and to those of another. They will be better people because of this.
Yesterday morning I asked her to hold Isaac while I prepared Ben's and Joe's breakfasts. Isaac's crying stopped and I looked around wondering where she had taken her baby brother. Dave saw the question on my face and pointed outdoors where she was sitting on the swing with him.
How much he must love her. How much I love them both.
5 comments:
This looks very familiar. What a gift big sisters are!
She really is amazing - and not just with her own siblings! I was amazed at the way she interacted with Norah the last time we visited, and I have some funny photos of her holding Simon. As you likely recall, Simon was a HUGE baby and he looked enormous sitting on slim little Hannah's lap. Francis and I marveled at her weight-to-strength ratio! :)
With Hannah the future is in good hands.
Isaac looks pretty happy and Hannah didn't do her hair by herself. Mom can't do it all, just some of it!
These photos are lovely! And Isaac continues to look so much like you. You must be so pleased to see how Hannah loves her baby brother!
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