Thursday, February 12, 2009

Gift for His Mom

He puts a song in my heart this man-boy of mine. He called today. He lets me ramble about dr. apts. past and yet to come. Then he requests (its always like this), its not a hair cut he's coming home for, or to have a button sewed on or his pants patched. My mission is to locate Origami pattern for flowers for his girl friend. He's coming home to craft with his Mama (I can say that 'cuz he walks in the door and says "Hi Mama!")!!!!! I am going to officially choose to believe that this is my valentines gift from him! I love to do hands on with my kids no matter the age.
J.J. is our prodigal, much like his father before him. Our 2nd child, 1st son. He makes me crazy at times with his liberal views. He has made some choices that has brought tears to my eyes and prayers to my lips (and one of those prayers is that he will come full circle like his father before him). Even though I get frustrated and down right heart broken at times, I am so thankful that he calls, requests, comes home...
... and always brings me a rose.

4 comments:

Tessa Nelson said...

OHHHH, I LOVED that!

Barb said...

The "mama heart"! It's so hard sometimes to face the fact that our job is just to love them and allow God to do the rest. We have to be thankful that contact is still there. They really are man-boys :) and won't there be praises to be sung when they become mighty men of God!!!

Tami said...

What a wonderful Valentine gift from your man-boy. He has always been one to charm the ladies. Can he be this old already? I vividly remember the day he made me breakfast when he was all of 4 or 5.

Tami said...

Okay, you are a Morning Glory, what does that mean? I was a snapdragon. Stop by my blog, scroll to the bottom and see what my flower says about me. What do you think?