Life has changed recently.
In the "old" days, I used to take by three kids to the movies in their pyjamas on a rainy Friday night and have them fight who would get to sit beside me.
This Friday night, I offered to take my three kids with each a friend to the movies. I carefully selected the movie "Wimpy Kid Dog Days". Something everyone would enjoy right?
Well Beauty, her friend and I loved it!
The boys decided not to attend that movie or really want to be seen with me or the girls much.
But that was ok. They sat at a booth close to us for poutines.
They
went to see a PG rated movie even if half of them were 12 and I helped them get
in (baaad mommy, but this is who I am I can't stop it), they walked behind me far to go to the car and texted me when the movie was
over.In the "old" days, I used to take by three kids to the movies in their pyjamas on a rainy Friday night and have them fight who would get to sit beside me.
This Friday night, I offered to take my three kids with each a friend to the movies. I carefully selected the movie "Wimpy Kid Dog Days". Something everyone would enjoy right?
Well Beauty, her friend and I loved it!
The boys decided not to attend that movie or really want to be seen with me or the girls much.
But that was ok. They sat at a booth close to us for poutines.
So it was a separate night but I still felt very much together. Standards go down when you have tweens.
I still loved that the boys say “I love u” at least three times during the evening in front of their friends just beacuse, I still get to have them ask me how my movie was when their one is done; I still have them ask me if I can supervise a midnight swim when they get home. And lucky for me-I still got to have my daughter cuddle with me and hold my hand the entire durationn of Wimpy Kid. It all felt equally good. My kids are good eggs.
They still share their lives with me-just in a different way than they used to. I am much more of a witness than my once full on contributer.
And here I am , almost Midnight still supervising the pool as my eyelids are heavy. I am so quiet here in the dark, my son did not even realize I was watching. I hear all their converstaions go on about who is dating who, who is ugly, who is beautiful, who is dumb and who is smart. I don't interject or interupt...my lessons are over in front of their freinds at this age.
My husband out playing poker at the yacht club with some guys friends. I am mostly alone
Life is changing.
They are changing.
I am changing.
I am so looking forward to unravel our next decade together.
Shared popcorn or not..it is still a delight and my possibly naïve goal is to keep it that way for as long as possible
