Cuddle Conflict

Our kids love my wife. They can’t get enough of her and when presented the opportunity, they’ll hound her. Don’t get me wrong, they will have moments with me, but they want to follow my wife around almost all the time if we let them.

The other night, we were all in the playroom hanging out before bedtime. Our 7 year old daughter E was home right after school since she wasn’t feeling well. She had some quality one-on-one time with Mommy. Our 1 year old son was happily playing with me and we were making shapes using a random Christmas gift I bought them (which was a great purchase it turns out!). My wife calls our 5 year old son C over to her for a quick cuddle session since he stayed in an after-school program before coming home (and when he got home, he hung out with me to eat dinner and talk).

C ran over to my wife and then E and L ran over as well. They other kids wanted to interrupt the one-on-one cuddle session that C was getting. Soon, it turned into a conflict and even C was messing with L saying that was his Mommy. I sat there helpless and watched the struggle.

After a few minutes, everyone settled down and cuddled for a bit before C called it quits to come over and play chess with me. E then spent some extra time over there with L before she came over to play chess too. I was helping her practice a few words for her spelling bee this week and my wife had already done a lot of prep earlier in the night. It was a relatively calm evening (at least for me) and I’ll take that any night of the week.