I thank God he made me a mom..
Got a call last night that baby boy was on his way home from girlfriends parents house out in the sticks.. went to bed.. was woke up this morning at being asked if he ever came home last night.. to which I replied as I sprang out of bed, "Oh God..."
Checked our phones.. no msgs.. but I had this vague memory of hearing microwave buttons about an hour ago in the kit...chen upstairs above my room... while waiting for a reply to our frantic txts to him, I woke his sister to ask if he had come home last night.. she had not heard from him...
Still waiting for a reply from him.. I went to his room to see if I could tell if he had been there in the night.. nothing out of the ordinary.. but I noticed a bowl of food by his bed... I picked it up and it was cold at first, but then I felt the bottom center of it and it was still faintly warm. Instant relief.. I knew he had made it home in the night... soon after he txt'd to say he had run to the store... 6am and he runs to the store... at 19 and constantly burning up the roads, he prolly hadn't even been to bed at all yet.
So add detective once again to my job description as mom... altho my heart freaks out pretty good at such moments.. God truly gives you a spider sense when he calls you into parenthood. There is so much you dont see coming at you and your family.. but he equips you along the way and makes you able to bear so much more than you ever dreamed you could.
Adult children still need family and home, someone watching their back, and a soft place to land as they stumble thru life like the rest of us.. you have to be that strong yet nurturing force when they are young.. but when they are grown, you get to let them make the decisions that guide their lives.. and you get to just love them ♥
Got a call last night that baby boy was on his way home from girlfriends parents house out in the sticks.. went to bed.. was woke up this morning at being asked if he ever came home last night.. to which I replied as I sprang out of bed, "Oh God..."
Checked our phones.. no msgs.. but I had this vague memory of hearing microwave buttons about an hour ago in the kit...chen upstairs above my room... while waiting for a reply to our frantic txts to him, I woke his sister to ask if he had come home last night.. she had not heard from him...
Still waiting for a reply from him.. I went to his room to see if I could tell if he had been there in the night.. nothing out of the ordinary.. but I noticed a bowl of food by his bed... I picked it up and it was cold at first, but then I felt the bottom center of it and it was still faintly warm. Instant relief.. I knew he had made it home in the night... soon after he txt'd to say he had run to the store... 6am and he runs to the store... at 19 and constantly burning up the roads, he prolly hadn't even been to bed at all yet.
So add detective once again to my job description as mom... altho my heart freaks out pretty good at such moments.. God truly gives you a spider sense when he calls you into parenthood. There is so much you dont see coming at you and your family.. but he equips you along the way and makes you able to bear so much more than you ever dreamed you could.
Adult children still need family and home, someone watching their back, and a soft place to land as they stumble thru life like the rest of us.. you have to be that strong yet nurturing force when they are young.. but when they are grown, you get to let them make the decisions that guide their lives.. and you get to just love them ♥
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