Sunday, April 4, 2010

Perfect Moment Monday

I Capture
Perfect Moments.


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Connor was invited to a birthday party this weekend. Specifically Saturday. He was going to go do "Paintball" with a group of boys in the afternoon and then go back to their house and have pizza and cake. I have to admit I was nervous about him doing the paintball thing. He and I went over the website together. I explained and pointed out that he must wear lots of padding and it really does "sting" when you get hit. Connor is pretty adventurous and is always willing to try anything once. At the risk of sounding like an overprotective mom I was concerned. I know my boy pretty well and I really didn't think he was going to like it. I was worried about him getting too hot (it's indoors and you dress in layers). He dehydrates easily...and so on and so on. I was so consumed with worrying about the paintball it didn't even occur to me until he was about to leave that he wouldn't be home Easter morning! That has never happened. We always have eggs to hunt and Easter baskets to sort through first thing in the morning. I was a little bummed and honestly I think he was too when I mentioned it to him. He didn't show it too much though. I told him that I would just pick him up at 9am and we would do Easter then.

So here is my perfect moment...
It's 11pm Saturday night. We are all in bed. Mark nudges me and says "I think I just heard the doorbell." I hopped out of bed and went to the door. There was my son peeking in the window with an apologetic look on his face. He was so sorry to wake us but he was really tired and just wanted to come home. (The Mom of the boy he was sleeping over with was kind enough to bring him home). Between you and me I guess Easter morning is still important to him. I was thrilled to have him home. This morning I woke up and told Mark I was glad he came home. Mark said "I was just thinking the same thing."

6 comments:

Lavender Luz said...

Awww....that's so sweet. It says a lot about how tight your family is.

Happy belated Easter, Bonnie!

Terra said...

So perfect. My brother did the same thing at a sleepover - Cracking me up, always said C was a little like him!

Lindsay said...

aww perfect moment! So glad he was able to come home and be there on Easter morning! Did he have fun playing paintball?

Anita said...

Aww Bonnie, that is so beautiful. I love that Conner wanted to come home,even when growing up they are still our "boys".

Sheri said...

That is very sweet! I bet your heart just melted when you saw him peeking in.

That IS perfect!

The Bailey Family said...

Oh I love this...love, love, love this