Mothering Many

Do your little boys have dream cars already? Do they dream of a classic Mustang with Bullit wheels and a glass pack? Or are they still thinking match box is the end all and be all of automobiles? Do they want slick cars like K.I.T.T., or do they wish for stock cars and racing? My little boys are still mostly little, none of them has mentioned what kind of car they eventually want to have yet. But it has been a while snce they declared their intent to live with me forever, or “at least across the street so I can come for fried chicken”.

It’s hard watching them grow isn’t it? Lately, I’ve been listening to Trace Adkins sing “You’re Gonna Miss This”, and I think he must be singing just to me. Sometimes I want to freeze them all for just a few minutes, so I can burn into my mind the perfection of THIS moment, before it blurs into the next.

Did I laugh today? Did I love enough? Soon enough, it’s going to be the real cars and the real life problems. Am I teaching them how to live, along with the Math and English?