Spring

This is what spring time is all about...

Last night, I sat on my front porch, watching my 4 boys playing together nicely.

No joke.

Sometimes this happens. It was the sweetest mom moment I have had in a long time!!

That is what spring is about, boys playing outside, laughing and loving eachother, even if it was only for a half an hour!

A Long Cold Walk

It was yesterday - you know, 10 degrees, sun shining.... Travis needed to go to his Dad's house after school to work on a school project.

He sent me a text message at about 3:30 asking me if he was supposed to walk there. I told him I couldn't leave work at the moment so he would probably have to.

"See you Saturday then" was the response I received back.

I had forgotten that it was that day when they head back to their Dad's for a few days.

I sent him a message and told him to walk where I work and I would take him to his Dad's that way I could see him before he left.

He decides that he would do this.

About 20 minutes later, I get a message "I'm here".

I send him one back "come in"

"Where are you?"

"I am in the door, up the stairs"

My phone rings... "Mom, where are you?"

"Where are you?" I ask back - somewhat confused...

"I'm in the parking lot" he says. I tell him I will be right out.

I go outside and I look around. I yell for him a little bit... nothing...

I call him, "where are you honey?"

"Mom, I think I don't know where you work" he says to me.

I laughed... he had walked to a different shop all the way across town from me.

"I'll be right there baby, stay put".

He's such a sweet kid. He is so smart!! I bet he never forgets where I work again! :)

Worth the Memory

The other night I sat in the bathroom next to my little Kyle as he brushed his teeth before bed. I remember when we first started this process - of course, he was too little to do any part himself. Then he "graduated" to being able to reach the sink with his step-stool and could do some of the brushing...

This night, we sat in there while he brushed and then he filled his drink cup all the way to the top. He does this every time he brushes. He rinses his mouth with the water and tries to "spout" it all the way across the top of the sink - I think his uncle Jimmy taught him this! Then when he's done, he usually washes his face, his hands then dries up with the towel and heads to bed... but this time, something was different.

This time, Kyle stood up on his tip-toes just enough that he could see the top of his head in the mirror. Boy did he get excited!

"Mom! I can see!"

"I know!" I told him, "What a BIG boy you have grown to be".

Seeing him measure how much of his head he could see in the mirror reminded me that when my family first moved into our home in Mayville 31 years ago, I had only been 5 at the time. I remember going in the bathroom to brush my teeth and only being able to see the top part of my head.

I used to keep track of how tall I had gotten by how much more of my head I could see each year!! :)

It made me smile - realizing that this little monkey was doing the same thing I had done so many years ago.

How time flies, how we grow, and change - yet some things will forever stay the same.