What do I fill this particular page with? Comments about work, life in general, my family?
Since the title is Mommy's musings how about my son.
I have loved my son since my first ultrasound at 6 weeks gestation. When I saw his little heart beat it was love at first sight. The first time I felt him move can't be described with words. All the nights he kept me up moving around however can be :-). The first time I held him in my arms was incredible and unbelievable. The first time he told me he loved me I cried.
He's 4 going on 30 and a never ending source of fascination for me. He is really funny and really smart-yea yea the proud mommy talking. He says and does the darnedest stuff though. He wouldn't go to bed the other night and when I asked him why it was because he was scary (his word for being scared). He said something about monsters. When I asked if the monsters were under the bed, intending to the the brave mommy and banish them, I was told in his best teenager voice "Mom, there are toys under the bed". You know, the voice of gee how stupid can you be. he's four. I am in so much trouble when he gets older.
He has eclectic taste in food for a four year old. He likes fried chicken strips and fries, mac and cheese and spaghetti, hot dogs and pizza-the typical kid stuff. He also likes asparagus, couscous, smashed cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, linguine with white clam sauce, garlic bread, and fried clam strips. Won't eat fresh fruit (unless it's pineapple or pears), carrots, hamburgers or salad. He loves bacon and eggs, pancakes, french toast and waffles. Still won't eat cereal with milk-dry cereal only thank you. He still occasionally will eat yogurt-custard style only please.
Do you ever wonder what it would have been like to have been the mother of some of the best known historical figures? Mozart, quit practicing that piano??!!! The one I wonder about the most however is Mary, mother of Jesus. From my perspective, since I believe the Bible, the baby and child Jesus was and is both God and Man. What did He look like? Was He a picky eater? Did He take about a year to potty train like my son? What were his favorite toys and games? Can you other mothers of boys imagine a perfectly behaved son? Some of these musings might seem sacreligious to some of you but as a mom I wonder. I intend to ask Mary when I get to heaven.
7 comments:
I can totally relate to your musings about the apple of your eye! So is my little boy, but as I have said I don't know my other little (28 y.o.)boy I had given up for adoption!
I'm not sure what you meant about the imprec? prayer...what I was saying was that I reported these activities to Joel's site. Anyway appreciate all of your suggestions.
This is an answer to a blog on a different site so those of you who don't know can ignore this.
The imprecatory prayer comment was only a caution to pray for our enemies and not to ask God to see that they get what's coming to them. As I said, I did this once. I asked God to return to those who had caused me problems professionally ten fold. I was very angry, not the least inclined to be forgiving and very depressed. I needed an answer to prayer about something I guess because there were somethings that I was praying about-getting a new job chief among them-that weren't being answered clearly. There were consequences that I hadn't thought through as to what that 10 fold could entail and I was shocked, dumbfounded and a few other things. I then asked God not to continue although there were those who hadn't been affected as of yet. SOme people would say it was a coincidence but I think it was the hand of God. I learned from that experience it is better to pray for your enemies than to pray that"they will get theirs" even if their actions have been wrong.
As a follow up. I don't think most people know what an imprecatory prayer is. I did but must admit I honestly didn't think it would be answered.
For those of you who don't know, David prayed sometimes to God to rain down judgement on those who had ill used him (David) and asked that they receive up to a certain times amount of in kind judgement.
It would be tempting certainly where a child is being so obviously harassed as some have related their children and or relatives being harassed to pray a prayer of vengence on the perpetrator or the parents. I know I would be so tempted. For most of us there is nothing like our children to bring out our more feral nature.
Jib,
Along with Forgiven Daughter, I can relate to your feelings for your little boy. I have 4 sons, so mult. that 4 times with me :) Hey, they may grow up, (my oldest is 40, and my youngest is 30 years old now) but they're still close to a mother's heart, no matter what the age :)
God Bless you! And many thanks for all the interesting posts, on Joel's Blog, too.
New Dig
Mugrabi Gate
jib,
Your son sounds precious! What a joy he must be to you.
Thank you for the kind comment regarding what I said about Pelosi. After I posted what I did, I went on to work on a possible post for my blog that dealt with forgiveness. At the end, I wrote that I didn't know my mother's heart and wasn't sure if she was saved. When I got up to walk away from the computer, I knew immediately that I should not have judged Pelosi's heart in that way. It's hard to believe that she could be so blind to evil if she's saved, but I don't know her heart.
Angie
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