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You Are So Smart Mommy
May 2 2009

I try to mix my parenting and business posts here on entrepreMusings.  Of late I feel like I’ve been doing more parenting related posts, but I just couldn’t pass this one up.  This morning as I was getting the kids ready for swim classes and soccer, my 6 year old son said the most brilliant thing!  We have a busy day today as I’ll be taking them both to my daughter’s swim class, then to my son’s soccer game, and then later back for his swim class.  Then we are heading out so they can see their dad finish the Shiner 100 mile bike race later this afternoon.  It’s two hours from Austin so I’m sure they will both take naps in the car.  [UPDATE: It ended up being a 5 hour roundtrip because I didn’t have the right directions.]

Anyway, my son was getting dressed for soccer, and he wasn’t sure what shirt to bring.  Sometimes they wear a black one and sometimes they wear a white one.  I told him why don’t you bring both just in case and then all of a sudden out of the blue he said “You are so smart mommy!”  I said “Really?”  He said, “Yes you are so smart to think of bringing both of them.”  I was like “Wow, thank you sweetie.  I’m so glad you think I’m smart.”  I gave him a huge hug and kiss and told him “I hope you still think that when you are 12 or 13 years old.”  He looked at me and said something like, “If I’m still playing soccer and you tell me to bring both shirts, you will be smart.”  We both laughed and my daughter laughed along with us.

He then couldn’t find his shirts and was looking in the wrong drawer and I told him to look in the other one and there they were.  He looked at me in disbelief and happiness that I found his shirts and again said “You are so smart!”  I was smiling from ear to ear and gave him another squeeze and tickle.  He was truly being genuine and he learned that I responded positively the first time so I thought he was quite brilliant to say it again so soon.  He’s picking up quick that when mom is happy, life is easier and he’s more likely to get to play the Wii.  🙂

I didn’t understand why people said boys have their moms wrapped around their fingers until I had a son.  My daughter has me wrapped too.  The wrapping loosens a bit when they whine but when they say and do brilliant things and when they flash their adorable smiles or are peacefully sleeping, it gets wrapped so tight it squeezes my heart and takes my breath away…

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One Comment on “You Are So Smart Mommy”

  1. 1 Erin Defosse said at 8:27 PM on May 3rd, 2009:

    Daddy, on the other hand used to TRY to be smart and determine what shirt SHOULD be worn on a given day (they claim to have a schedule at the soccer league for this) only to find that he would screw it up….until he learned from mom that he had to stop trying so hard and just bring both! Now isn’t this the story of most dads at home? I say that it’s that relatively thin corpus collosum in the brain that is the problem, btw.

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