Little kids and bedtime. I have a love-hate relationship with bedtime. I love the end of the day snuggles, giggles, and "I love you". I hate the getting out of bed, I need a drink of water with ice in it (seriously, my kids are ice snobs!) and the dragging on of bedtime when I want 20 minutes to myself before going to bed.

My 4 yr old is in this stage of figuring out all things but at bedtime it is time. I explain I will lay with him for 5 minutes. So we discuss how long is a minute, hour, day and so on. But then he spreads his arms out and asks, "is a minute this big?"

I explain that you can't measure time like that and really even with our scientific ways of days, weeks, months and years, it's hard to measure time.

To which he just says, "well, I want you to lay with me for one more minute, and one more minute after that."

It's hard to resist, especially the nights he says "I want you to lay with me forever."

Nikki commentary:

The crazy idea is time. No one day is created equal. Some days feel longer than others. Are harder than others.

Health wise, I'm happy to report that I have established care with an amazing Gastroenterologist. On May 11, 2017, I had a colonoscopy and an upper endoscopy that both came back clear. He was pleased with everything and I'm scheduled to see him again in May 2018.

It was an interesting appointment with him. Since he is looking at my health history for the first time, I got some new insight on my type of cancer. Basically, he explained that even though I tested negative for Lynch Syndrome, that he was taking the precautions as if I had it.

Where my tumor was located (upper colon) is rare with my age. Normally, it would have been lower or rectal. And when testing the make up of my tumor it was 5/5 unstable. For LS, if it's 2/5 unstable, it points to having it.

Regardless of those details, I feel good. And I'm trying to enjoy the craziness and sometimes overwhelming moments in one more minute. Even when it consist of 60 minute bedtime routines!

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