I’m having lots of these moments where I feel like my children are growing up, becoming more of themselves, doing the unexpected.

Today Grace arrived home after singing, while Eli was at swimming with Donné. Adam was watching some TV and I was working in my office. I went downstairs for some reason and see Grace filling up the kettle, so I asked her if she was making tea or hot chocolate for herself.

No, that’s not what I’m doing. Okay, so why are you boiling the kettle? I’m going to wash the dishes. Oh, okay – thanks Grace. What made you decide to do that? They’ve just been here for too long, so I thought they needed to be cleaned.

That was certainly surprising, and very kind of her to do. I can’t quite say why, maybe it was just because she did a chore without any prompting, but it made me feel like she is growing up and becoming even more of her own person.