Let's Share a Sweet Memory

[WebmasterMaryJo]

<font color=navy>I remember one day when I went to my kids' school to pick them up, I was going to talk to some parents, and my 9 year old son frantically waved me to go around the building. Curiously, I did so, and he leaned over and said in a low voice, "I love you."

He didn't want to tell me that in front of his friends, but .... he wanted to tell me. He's 16 now, and that memory still makes me all mushy inside.

 

[Rutt and Tuke]

That's really sweet.

 

[DISshopkeeper]

Sweet moment: Watching DS17 interacting with the severely handicapped kids in the IU at his high school. I didn't know he had it in him. I cried sweet tears all the way home....

 

[nativetxn]

Dorothy, I have a similar story. When my son was a junior in high school, I attended a performance of the Orchestra when he was playing string bass. I watched him interact with the students in wheel chairs ( he wasn't aware I was watching). He would get down on his knee to talk with them so that they were eye to eye and he wasn't "looking down on them".

Then when he was in college, I had dinner with some women from my husband's law firm. They are all attorneys and I'm "just the wife" of another partner. One of the female attorneys for whom Travis had worked while he was in high school doing carpentry work told me that Travis had confided in her once that I was the "smartest person he had ever known".

Considering that his father has lots more degrees than I have and that the woman he told this to has a law degree and is very successful, I can't tell you how surprised and touched I was to hear that.

I love my son

 

[DISshopkeeper]

awww, Kath... so sweet.

Someone else tell us one!

 

[RitaZ.]

There are several, but one that I get to "see" daily... It's when I drive-up in the car line to pick up my kids from their schools, their faces light up and they smile when they see me.

Ok, another one is when all 3 of them are having breakfast in the mornings, they talk and make each other laugh.

 

[pumba]

but we took them all to Disney four years ago and then two years ago....we took the spouses too and the grandkids......When my daughter in law told us that she could not think of anyone else she would of wanted to go to Disney with then us.....My kids are the best....always are close to my heart and we are blessed to have had two great ones

 

[nativetxn]

Awww....Pum, that's so sweet

 

[Saphire]

When my dear daughter was four, I was sitting at the table with her and her two older brothers. We were talking about how they will all get married some day in the future. When my daughter mentioned that she and her husband will live "upstairs", I said, "Oh no, you will live in another house, your own house". She looked at me, shocked, and burst out crying. "You mean I won't live here? Oh, no mommy, I will never leave you!" It took me a long time to calm her down, and I assured her, if she wanted to, she could live here with her husband.

 

[DISshopkeeper]

awwww saphire!

 

[Pooh93]

I call from work every morning to tell the kids to have a good day, I love them etc. Youngest dd always kisses the phone before she hangs up. I can imagine a big, sloppy kiss coming through the phone lines. Always makes me smile. This same dd also tells me that when she grows up she's going to live next door to me. We'll see how that pans out!

 

[TimeforMe]

I remember when my DS (now 14) was in fourth grade and long past the holding my hand stage, I chaperoned a class trip. We were watching something that had him totally captivated and he forgot himself and grabbed my hand as we walked. It was so sweet and I was so surprised.

I also remember when my DD was in kindergarten. Our school had 3 "long" days and 2 "short" days. Well, it was one of her short days and I had gone to pick her up but for some reason got mixed up and picked her up at the time that the whole school would have had an early dismissal, which was about 1/2 hr. later than I should have. When I walked into school, she was sitting patiently in the chair dangling her feet and asked if I "ran into traffic" (very sincerely) because I was so late. Of course we only lived 5 minutes from the school. I felt like such a bad mommy.