Tonight when I snuggled next to Jack to sing him a goodnight song, I thought it was an ordinary night, but I was really entering the Twilight Zone.
I had just started to get up from his bed when he called me back with a question.
Jack: "Did you sing those songs to your other kids?"
Me: "Cutie, I don't have any other kids."
Jack: "Yes Mommy, you do, from before we were borned."
Me: "No Jack, sweetie' I have no other kids. Where do you think they would have gone?"
Jack: "I don't know."
I kiss him quickly on the forehead and start to get up, but he stops me with another question.
Jack: "I wonder who my mom is going to be."
Me (getting a little freaked out): "Jack, what are you talking about? I'm your mommy and I always will be."
Jack: "No Mom. Not now. Who my mommy is going to be when I'm all growed up."
Me (slowly, enunciating very clearly): "Jack, I'm going to be your mommy always."
Jack: "Always? Even when I'm growed up?"
Me: "Always."
Jack: "But what about Daddy? Do I get to have the same daddy when I'm growed up?"
Me: "Of course you do!"
Jack: "Oh. Good."
And then he turned over and went to sleep. All bizarre questions answered and dark fears put to rest.
The Sunday Scribblings Prompt today is "Listen up, this is important!" I was going to write something serious about the economy but ended up with this instead!
4 comments:
Aw...You can post about the economy another time. I'm glad you posted this one instead. Really enjoyed this. Now, I'm off to check out some of your recipes. Any vegetarian ones?
Thanks for the visit and your kind words. They were greatly appreciated.
children are so wonderful, we never know what they are thinking or will say next. This is one of the gifts in sharing time with them, the present moment is quite alive. Thank you for sharing your tale.
Wouldn't you just like to climb into their heads sometimes and see what is going on?
My kids have all asked me many times when I become the adult and your the kid this is the way it is going to be? Why do they think I am going to get younger? All I can think is maybe it is a good sign that they are planning on taking care of me when I get older....
And then he turned over and went to sleep .....you'd obviously said all the right things.
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