Short blog today, too much to do before my Pampered Chef show tonight. My nearly 10 year old did something yesterday that touched my heart. We have been on him to get up promptly, dress himself, make his bed and get ready for school. Yesterday he did all that without being told twice, which is a miracle! But while making his bed he did something that struck me as so darn cute I almost vomited (not really, but it WAS cute!)
After making his bed, he arranged his large stuffed teddy bear at the end of the bed with his two Webkinz on the teddy bear's chest. Ever so gently, he linked one Webkinz's arm with the other, and then delicately wrapped all three stuffed animals in a fleece throw he keeps at the end of the bed. It was like watching a mother swaddle her infant. He was doing it with such deliberateness and tenderness I almost wanted to cry.
I sometimes forget amongst the yelling, the stubbornness over homework, the fighting with his younger sibling that 9 going on 10 can still be a sweet, innocent age. Too soon he''ll be tuning me out with an iPod, asking me to drop him off a block away from the mall, and resisting my hugs. But for one golden moment, he reminded me of how truly magical our children can be.
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