Oh, to be a kid again!

Real date for post 4/4/08
I love nights like tonight. Some nights Isaac can put up a fight when we get ready for bed, but tonight he was the biggest goof ball. He was so exhausted but he managed to maintain his sense of humor. I was just humming a song and then I would get closer and closer to his face until I was right up to his nose and then I would get far away and start it all over again and Isaac thought it was so funny. He didn’t just smile but he was in a full belly laugh, he was just cracking up. So we just had some fun before he went to bed and I kept doing that for awhile and at one point when I got really close to him he put his hands on my head and just held my face by his with our noses touching and he just laughingly sighed for a moment and then we did it all over again and it was still as funny as the first time that I did it. These are the moments when I really love being a mom, for five minutes today I was the funniest person to someone. To most people I probably looked like the biggest dork, but that’s what I love about these moments, he has no idea what it means to be a dork, no sense of what it means to judge someone, no sense at all to think this lady is just crazy, nothing but pure unconditional love and acceptance. I just got to thinking later, how great would it be if I could live my life like this, to find this kind of humor in the simple things in life. I wish I could protect him from the harshness and judgmental opinions he will someday face, if only the whole world could go through life accepting others the way young children accept others I think this world would be such a different place. For now I guess I can’t worry about that, I can only try to find that kind of humor and acceptance of others in my life and just cherish these moments because we all know that there will come a day when Isaac is 17 and doesn’t think his mom is so cool anymore.