\u201cWrite a story about me, Mom.\u201d My 3 year old son told me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat should it say about you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt should say B and C and X,\u201d he answered. \u201d And your favorite letter G that sounds like nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything else?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cT looks like I.\u201d He looked at the screen and sighed. \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of letters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that a good thing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, because then the people know you love me. Because of the lots of letters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t know that already?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNow they know it bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a lot of sense in his 3 year old self. We spend our time and energy on the things which are important to us. \u00a0#6 sees me writing and rewriting and knows how important all of those letters are in my life. He may not always understand exactly what I\u2019m doing at the computer, but he wants to be a part of it because he loves me.<\/p>\n
I could learn a lot from my little boy. \u00a0He rinds me that sometimes love means being interested in what the people we love are interested in, even when it\u2019s not our thing. \u00a0Sometimes, especially when it\u2019s not our thing. \u00a0It shows them that we love and value them and are willing to give them the gift our our attention, the gift of ourselves.<\/p>\n
I need to remember that when he\u2019s asking me to play trains with him, or even Angry Birds (the bane of my existence). It\u2019s not the activity he\u2019s craving, but my time and attention. \u00a0He\u2019s asking, in his own innocent way, for me to show that I love him. \u00a0He wants me to give him the gift of my time, and of showing him how beloved he truly is.<\/p>\n
\u201cWrite a story about me,\u201d or \u201cPlay trains with me,\u201d or \u201cRead me a story,\u201d the request isn\u2019t as important as the message \u201cSlow down for a moment out of your busy life to show me I\u2019m important to you, too.\u201d <\/p>\n
I love him so much, this silly boy of mine. I love that he wants nothing more than to sit on my lap and just be my boy, so that\u2019s my plan for the rest of the evening. \u00a0I\u2019m going to be playing games, tickling toes, \u00a0and showing him how I love him. \u00a0It\u2019s the most important thing I will have done today.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m going to find out exactly how the G sounds like nine. \u00a0I\u2019m still not exactly clear about that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWrite a story about me, Mom.\u201d My 3 year old son told me. \u201cWhat should it say about you?\u201d \u201cIt should say B and C and X,\u201d he answered. \u201d And your favorite letter G that sounds like nine.\u201d \u201cAnything else?\u201d I asked. \u201cT looks like I.\u201d He looked at the screen and sighed. \u201cThat\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n