(Beauty no offense with this title-you get it right?).
Yesterday I took our two boys shopping for ski clothes. I
realized that I have three daughters in this family-you should have heard them
at it!. It took a year to decide on which helmet went best with which goggles
and who got to have which ones. They fought like cats and dogs at that store.
And they talked about the clothes the whole way there and the whole way back.
Who said boys don’t like shopping? Mine certainly do..That’s
all they really think about even though they rarely have any money to buy any
as they often don’t earn their full allowance.Who needs daughters to go shopping and to the spa when you have two who’s two favorite activities on earth are going to buy clothes and get a massage?
Someone could have mentioned this to be when I spent
years pining away at needing that girl? Couldn’t someone have let me know that
it can’t get more girly or bonding than this?
But this morning …they were those traditional boys again.
As my one my best friends said the others night about her newborn son “Boys are
yummy”
They most certainly are.
This morning we got up before the sun was up as our boys
are running part of the Montreal Marathon for school and we offered to drive a
bunch of them all to the race downtown. We went and each picked up a number of friends
in 2 cars and then met back her at home before leaving. A total of 10 boys all
shooting hoops outside on our street, before the sun is up, all in their sports
uniforms, with their sports hoodys, wearing the brand of their school proudly.
All shapes and sizes, all athletic and sporty, all smart, smart, kind, wonderful
boys.
I looked out my window and felt immensely happy and proud
and delighted at these creatures..
Boys Rock.
So do Girls.
So extremely and utterly different and so very much alike
on so many levels. I feel blessed to be able to get the chance to experience both. It was always by dream and was my Protector's too. It is one we always shared and we are getting to live it out together; I never want it to end really.
It gives me great, great satisfaction to be assisting these
kids to grow up into adulthood. It is such an immense honor to play this role
and to watch them sprout and bloom in front of my very eyes.To know that one day…we will have men and woman at our dinner table and that Hubby and I created these beautiful creatures together…..it’s really a humbling thought.
Seeing the boys outside today all masculine and athletic
and seeing them yesterday all decked out in their feminine sides reminded me of
what I love about life.
And it is all topped my pleasure off fully to have a real Sleeping Beauty of my own.In her bed
right now sleeping and missing that beautiful sight out of the window of all those boys. So I took a picture of it all for her ..and
for me….to always remembers who they were before they became men.
It is certain..that girls in this family…love their boys.
