A Quiet Moment with My Son

My son and I were lounging around looking at a toy catalog. He pores over this thing for hours telling me his favorites and asking me which are my favorites and which ones did I think were T's favorites and what about his dad's favorites, too?

He pointed out one that he said was too expensive to buy. I told him those were fun to save for special times like birthdays or Christmas or for Santa gifts.

He nodded in understanding as he browsed on and then he looked over to me and said, "We should go to the North Pole and thank Santa for the nice gifts he got me last year."

How proud I was... this was proof I was doing something right as a mother. My son wants to go personally thank someone for a gift he received and he thought of it all by himself. I was gratified, elated!

"You are so sweet to think of that. How wonderful." I wanted to be as encouraging as possible. I'm raising a future fabulous citizen of planet earth!

Continuing on with his plans for this future trip, J says, "Well, me and Dad will go anyway. You're too big -- you'll break the ice up there."

Gratifying moment over!