I knew it would happen...

I understand that teenagers need their independence. I get that. I also understand that sometimes parents are found to be an embarrassment. I get that. Today, my first born...(the one whom I practice parenting on because there are no practice models of children,) shunned me. I know! Shocking! I expect you are as stunned as I was when he actually did it!

I was at the Jr. High waiting in the hallway to go into the choir room with a neighbor girl. (I was accompanying her for a solo, I don't just go to school with the neighbors for giggles.) Anyways, so the Light of My Life, the Joy in My Soul, My Boy, walks past me to get to his band class. We are exactly one person apart in distance. Eye contact is made and I restrain myself from what could be considered inappropriate mommy behavior. (I don't yell out, "Hey pooky bear, I miss you", I don't run over and straighten his collar or lick my thumb and wipe a spot off his cheek etc.) No, I know better than to ruin a boys scholastic career with such behavior. I smile and start to wave (Mind you just a little, slight bend at the elbow wave, not over the head wave.) and he looks back to the ground and continues on to band. Again, shocking!

I knew it would happen, I expected some distance. He stopped letting me kiss him in public years ago but now this? It is a dark day in a mommy's heart when she realizes her little guy does not want to be associated with her in public. Oh the heartbreak! I guess I'll pull through, I have three more boys to play with until they realize that it isn't cool to be with mom in public!

Bad dreams

Dallens prayer tonight at bedtime...
after Dear Heavenly Father, thankful fors, etc then he prayed for no scary dreams...then he prayed for no scary dreams which would wake him up, then he prayed for no scary dreams with animals in them, then he prayed for no scary dreams in which wolves ate Daddy. Anyways,...after a solid 10 minutes of variations on the "please help me have a good night sleep" statement, he kindly added an almost postscript of, "And then help Mommy get everything done we ask her to do." Speaking as the tired Mommy from last night when we did have a bad dream, I am very grateful for his attentiveness to Mommys needs also. :)