A common question in our busy house.  Usually the child asking is wanting to know how s/he’s getting home from the event.

With more children than parents in our family, it’s been our protocol that at least one parent is at each child’s event, which is tricky some nights where you literally do not know how that will logically happen.  As a couple, we discuss who need to be where, recognizing times when one of us needs to be “back home” with the other children who have homework, etc., who need to have a stable night at home in the hectic-life-of-a-family-with-school-age-children.

We have five sporting events in six day this week, so tonight was going to be my night home with the other kids who need a warm meal and a mom to slobber over them with kisses (in my dreams) and questions about their day.  

This question came not only once last night, but twice.  Unusual for the boy who doesn’t say much and hasn’t let me kiss him since he was five.  Seriously.  He stopped letting me kiss him when he was five.

Making a mental note of the repeated question, Papa and I talked about who should be where.  I was thinking tonight was my night to get the busy week started off right by being at home with the other two.  

1.   If they really don’t want you do something, they’ll say so.

For some reason, this young man needs his mom at his game even though his dad is going to be there.  Perhaps it’s just for a ride home because his dad has a church meeting afterwards.  Perhaps it’s because he wants to discuss things deep inside his soul (highly unlikely), or maybe, tonight, he just needs his mom to smile at him from the stands. 

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