Remember When?

Remember when, is a nail biter. Could be a sweet memory or something evil that you may have done?? Especially when your child utters the phrase. Every mother has an "arsenic hour" when raising children!!! So when my twenty-six year old son, Hart, said, "Remember when??...you walked with Ward, Lauren Bagdy and me in the snow and ice storm, to Kroger?" and " Lauren fell in the snowbank, and you fell on the ice?" "Those are good snow memories." "Would you do that again mom?" Hmmmmm.... "No Hart, that was when I was a good mom!" " You think I liked to be out in the snow with you kids?" SO000000 mom, "Does that mean you will not be playing with us in the snow tomorrow?" Precious son of mine, "I hate the cold, I hate the snow, and I have not only cut the apron strings, I burnt the apron!" " I have raised strong, independent children, who play with others!!!" after the laughter has died down, Hart said, " but it will be fun!" Anyone that starts a sentence with, "but it will be fun", has horns!!! and a tilted halo!!! HART...".I'm sure it will be fun for you, and I hope you enjoy it, take Lucy the lab, with you on your frolic in the white powder." " I will be wrapped in a blanket, with only my eyes showing, knowing that I am the best mom in the whole wide world!!!!
Phone rings.....ring....." Mom, it's Emma, I wish I were home to play in the snow with you. Take a lot of pictures!"Thank Jesus for a long lens on the camera, because this mom is staying IN!!! "Emma, oh I know, we wish you were home from college also, love, love and ps.. call your brother!! it will be fun!!! remember when you two played together!!!??"
I love being a mom!!!