My youngest (and only son) is in his 1st year of college. He's always been very openly affectionate with hugs, saying "I love you" and becoming a young man hasn't changed that. He calls me about once a week and I get emails from him frequently. Both always ends with "I love you" (without me having to say it 1st).
But what he DOESN'T do is send me text messages... never! Now, for the 2nd day in a row, he has sent me a text message just to say "I love you, Mommy". It kind of worries me... yesterday I replied with the same sentiment and said "I hope everything is ok." He responded right away with "Everything is fine. I just wanted to tell you."
Then today... another text message saying "I love you, Mom. I hope you are having a great day! I just wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about you."
It's finals week and I know he is really, really busy (he's a perfectionist about things so I know he is stressing out and hitting the books hard) so it just made it even more touching for me to know that even as focused as I know he is right now... he still thinks about the people he cares about!
I guess the only question here is... what have your kids done lately that has really put a smile on your face and warmed your heart?
My son....My little hero He became a man about a month ago.. when he grew taller than I and... well I will tell you the story.....
My mother called and was screaming the family dog was attacked and I had to drive out to the country to get her to the vet. She was attacked by a few Black Labs, she is only a tiny dog (Lassapso).. I picked her up as she was literally in pieces, and still alive. I rushed her to the vets.
The vet told me 1000.00 to start at least as she was in bad shape.. he also said, it was a lifetime recovery... SO I knew our beloved Gigi had to be put down..
For some reason I did not cry infront of my granparents, or my mother, perhaps I knew inside it was too much for them if I would have broken down.
My son and I went and had a moment with her before they put her down... the dam broke, and I almost hit the floor my son caught me. I wept for the suffering of this beautiful creature that we loved so to see her in such pain.. My son soothed my soul, and he comforted me when it should have been the other way around.. this day my 15 year-old became a man.
A beautiful loving man will he be in life I know this now. Wow kids really are wonderful to have... I wish I could have had more.
I don't have any grandchildren yet but am REALLY looking forward to that! My oldest daughter is engaged to a man that has a 7 year old son and has full custody. I won't be meeting them until July but that will be fun!
That is so touching... seeing compassion come from our children is a true gift! It let's us know that no matter how much we did wrong.. we did something (that is really important) right!
These are such heart warming sentiments about the wonderful things that our children bring to our lives...
I was always a parent that stayed on top of what my kids were doing (much to their dismay)! Now that they are all grown up, they love shocking me with stories about the things they got away with and I never had a clue... they were really big on being a "tattle tale" about things that really didn't matter. But now I'm finding out that the things that DID matter, they kept there brother/sister's secrets.
Their explanation of that... it's too late for me to do anything about it, they really want me to know that they were able to pull something over on me (I wasn't ALWAYS the one in control), and hey-- they didn't see any need to give me any more grey hair than they already had!
And the end of every story... I love you mom and you did the best you could! Yeah... right! Some of these stories make me think I'm the biggest/blindest dummy that ever lived!
But... the 3 of them are also the only "true" loves I've ever had! Unconditional from the moment I knew I was carrying life inside of me. They drive me crazy, and there is NOTHING they could ever do that I wouldn't be at their side doing everything in my power to help them get through it!
My "baby boy" just put a real glow in my heart today and I just had to share it! Thank you to all of you that let me do that and shared some similar stories with me!
... my son is only 2, he makes my day everytime I pick him up from playschool, just the way he looks at me with a great smile and starts running to me to hug me as he hasn´t seen me for years, smile. that is just THE best feeling I can imagine, I feel so happy when he does that.
i came home from work one evening, and wasn't feeling too well. my mom was there, and she suggested a nap. my two-year-old at the time...got her blankie...covered me...gave me her teddy bear, and then her sippy cup. tucked me in, and said night night, mama.
bailey_beezNiagara Falls, Ontario Canada1,118 posts
You guuuuuuuyyssss you're gonna make me cry!!! Two months after my husband and I split up, my son who was 6 came home from school and said mommy I love you, and I think you deserve this, when I get big I'm going to buy you a real one. Then he gave me a picture he cut out of a flyer- a 2 ct diamond ring (princess cut)! I still have it in my wallet...
bailey_beezNiagara Falls, Ontario Canada1,118 posts
This past December, I asked my son (7) what he wanted for Christmas he answered me right away with: "I don't need anything because I already have everything I want- you and my sister!" A few weeks later he said, "Maman, how come you cried when I told you that I wanted you and my sister for Christmas?" He's so cute, so special and has no clue just how wonderful he really is...
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But what he DOESN'T do is send me text messages... never! Now, for the 2nd day in a row, he has sent me a text message just to say "I love you, Mommy". It kind of worries me... yesterday I replied with the same sentiment and said "I hope everything is ok." He responded right away with "Everything is fine. I just wanted to tell you."
Then today... another text message saying "I love you, Mom. I hope you are having a great day! I just wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about you."
It's finals week and I know he is really, really busy (he's a perfectionist about things so I know he is stressing out and hitting the books hard) so it just made it even more touching for me to know that even as focused as I know he is right now... he still thinks about the people he cares about!
I guess the only question here is... what have your kids done lately that has really put a smile on your face and warmed your heart?