Children provide great inspiration, especially if you capture it in the moment. When they say something funny or do something cute, the parent who puts in on paper has extra memories down the road.
Recently, I found some scribblings I’d written when my two sons were little and the world held much to learn.
My three-year-old is learning how
To help put on his clothes.
But when it comes to shoes and socks,
He says: “I’ll just wear toes!”
That three-year-old is now thirty-two and living in New York City. He owns an online retail business with his partner, Chris, and long ago gave up toes as the ultimate in footwear. But if I hadn’t written it down, I would have surely forgotten that incident.
Many moms keep their children’s school art projects and report cards and class photos for years, and I am no exception. However, a while back when both of my sons visited at the same time, I handed each a large box filled with their own childhood mementos. I reasoned I had kept them long enough and it was time to return them to their rightful owners.
We spent the evening emptying those boxes and remembering, as each son chose what to keep and what to toss. I kept my opinions out of it. And when Kevin and Keith left, their possessions went too. So I am even more grateful for the old habit of writing down sayings, situations, and sillinesses from long ago. I didn’t give those away.
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