Well, actually, it isn’t.

But never mind, more about that in another blog.

I kinda don’t feel like doing a Smiley Saturday, I have other things on my mind right now.

However, I have had some super sweet smiley moments that MUST be mentioned.

• Spending time with my MIL. See here.
• My kitchen is 95% finished. I am thrilled to bits with it. Once it is completed, I will show it off.
• Conversations in the car yesterday that went something like this:

Me, putting birthday stuff in car and noticing CL looking a little down. : Are you thinking about Finbar?

CL: Yes, I am thinking about how he is 10. I am happy he has our dead farm animals to look after.

(When a farm animal dies, I ask the boys to give it to Finbar to look after for us as he doesn’t have many animals up there)

We talk about when this life is over, they will have such a big catch up. CL will have so much to tell Finbar about his life here on earth. And Finbar will have so much to tell CL about life in heaven.

Celtic Dingo: Mum, I want to buy CL a birthday present. Do you know what it is?

Me: Don’t say anything in front of CL. We need to keep it a surprise.

CL: You know the best present anyone could buy me is a book of sudoku.

Me, seeing a potential problem, launches into how to receive a gift even if you are disappointed with the gift. It concludes with

CL: I think any presents I don’t like can go to kids with cancer.

So I am smiling. And musing over what wonderful pure spirits my boys have and thinking about Finbar and feeling very serene about it all.

CL: Mother, why are you smiling? Are you smiling because you love me?

Me: Yes.

CL (Smiling): And because you think I am such a special boy?

Me: Yes.

CL: Are you smiling because you are grateful I am a surviving twin and I’m alive?

And it hits me.

Me: Yes, very much so.

And I am grateful that CL is alive. That 10 minutes would have been all it taken to have a stillborn Celtic Lad. My grief for Finbar and my joy for Celtic Lad are 2 separate issues. How often when I spoke of my grief for Finbar was I told to be grateful I had Liam?

I AM GRATEFUL !!!! Always have been. Always will be.

So often I cup his widdle face in my hands and say “I am so glad you are here.”

Then driving down the road a bit further, Celtic Lad is going over the differences between identical twins and fraternal twins.

I explain about 2 eggs ~ 2 sperms for fraternal, and 1 egg, 1 sperm that splits in 2 for identical.

CD: Yeah, he wears a helmet ay Mum?

Me: Who ??

CD: The sperm. He puts his hat on and then jumps in the swimming pool to get to the egg.

My mind flashes images and I get the giggles.

Me: Where on earth did you get that idea?

CL: From a book you gave us to read about how babies are made.

I had to chuckle to myself.

And the Piece of Resistance. (I love saying it wrong so you Frenchies, don’t get your berets in a knot, it was deliberate)

In light of Mr Shamrock’s Fruit Salad pic, and subsequent nickname of Banana Boy, I was sent

This picture:

With the comment

Not the kind of “well hung” he may be looking for

Cracked me up no end.

K, now make sure you pop over to Lightening’s and see some more smiley moments from blogs around the globe.