Sweet ending to our day

Today was a shopping day.  I have spent the last few days doing a little here and a little there.  And today I got some stuff done!  Of course not before I had to go to several stores to find "the gift" the boys want this year.  But I got it done!  I can check them off my list.  Next up was the boys shopping for each other.  I took one, returned home, dropped that one off, picked up the other and off we went.  I am not the type of person who enjoys running around from store to store. I do not like shopping anymore.
I still have a few things to pick up for their stockings, but can get most of that from the grocery store.  After a long day of coming and going I was prepared to start on my next project.......fudge! 
But the phone rang.  It was my friend Cindy.  She was calling to see if she could bring over a gingerbread house.  What a treat!  I accepted.  This was not just any gingerbread house.  This was a homemade gingerbread house with all the fixings.  Icing and lots of different candies for the boys to decorate. 
I gladly put off making the fudge to decorate a gingerbread house with my boys.  Thanks Cindy!  The boys enjoyed it and we had fun decorating the house.  It smells wonderful!  What a sweet ending to our day!




Check out the "sweet" street light

Looks yummy!

And the sweetness did not stop there.  This sweetness is the kind that will melt your heart. 
As we were putting the boys to bed we were talking about praying for my niece that will go tomorrow for a check-up for her scoliosis.  There is a chance she will need surgery.
So I am in Ryan's room putting his brace on for his Infantile Scoliosis and Matthew is sitting in his bed in his room.  He can see in Ryan's room and says, "Mom, I prayed for Ryan's scoliosis." I told him how pleased that makes me and God. We didn't discuss it because I didn't want to get Ryan all upset or start thinking about his brace(that he does not like to wear to bed).
I kissed them both and put them to bed. 
Not a minute or two later Matthew comes in my bedroom and wants to tell me something.  I immediately start in on him for being up.  He says, "But I need to tell you something."  I wait and nothing.  I asked him to tell me and he hesitates and then says, "Mommy, I wish I had Ryan's scoliosis."
My heart sank and the tears started coming.  I was standing up and made my way to the wicker love seat.  I grabbed this precious soul and hugged him.  And oh so tightly.  He closed his eyes and started to cry. 
He is my sensitive one, but this was too much.  A good too much!!!  Oh the love he has for his brother. 
I tell him how happy that makes me and God.  I say to him you must really love your brother a lot.  With eyes closed, fighting the tears, he nods his head yes.  This is not a little boy......this is a big boy who gets this love thing!  He realizes the pain his brother is in daily.  Not necessarily pain from his back, but pain of having to wear a brace during the day and at night......every single day.  He wanted to take Ryan's pain away.
This is one proud, happy momma this evening!  And I can truly say I had a sweet ending to our day!
Thank you God for my blessings!