Because what's funnier than a hamper on your head?
“Take off your pajama pants and put on your jeans.”
Followed by various animal and other unintelligible noises and the sounds of pattering feet.
“Here, take these and put them on — we’re gonna be late for school!”
The swooshing sounds of someone larger trying to catch someone quick and small.
“Here, put your foot in!”
“I gonna do it ALL BY MYSELF!”
“Then do it.”
Two minute pause while my husband comes into the bathroom to brush his teeth then exits again.
“Asher, put on your pants!!!” And I can only assume Gabe then tried to hurry up the process by helping.
“No! I gonna do it ALL BY MYSELF!”
And this is the part that really caught my attention. Words of wisdom tossed off in the chaos of the morning rush.
“Well then stop talking about doing it, and do it.”
Gabe heard me laughing and came back into the bathroom.
“What?” he said.
“Words of wisdom,” said I.
And we laughed.
But we both know they really are.
Those words resonate with me. I feel like I’ve done some talking about doing things that was not followed by doing those things in my life, and if I have any regrets, that’s one of them. I’d love my son (both of them actually) to be the kind of person who stops talking about things and just does them.
That would make me very proud.
Whatever it is he’s doing.
As long as he’s doing.
With all the usual caveats about criminal activities and so forth.
I love my sons with all my heart. More than I ever thought I could love anyone.
I’ll always love them with the overwhelming intensity that is being a mom. But beyond loving them, my wish for their futures is that they become people I admire.
This one thing I’m talking about doing and actually doing every day of my life. Trying to do at least some small thing to effect this.
It’s a job I take seriously.
Although sometimes we just sit around and talk about how stinky things are.
Because we can only be serious for so long.
He is definitely his father’s child….for sure! They both work better under pressure