This past week has simply been awesome!
The boys had vacation Bible school at church this week, it has been marvelous to hear them come home singing the songs and telling me about their day at 'school'. =-)
Monday evening as I was trying to figure out what to fix for my family for dinner, our 6 year old son said, "Mom, I want to take you on a date!" Well that's all it took - he and I went out to eat at a fantastic steak restaurant! Our meal was a beautiful presentation of a perfectly cooked steak with gormet french fries and Root Beers. We laughed and talked all through the dinner, afterwards we took a walk through the little villiage the restaurant was located in and he and I had so much fun just simply being together.
Wednesday morning after dropping the boys off at vbs, my 2 year old daughter and I had a spa day - what fun we had being together! I'm looking forward to more of those mother/daughter times!
Wednesday evening, our 5 year old son took me out to eat at our favorite pizza joint. Originally he wanted to go to McDonalds, then changed his mind to Red Lobster, and eventually settled on the pizza place. It happens to be in the same location as the steak restaurant! He kept me laughing all through the meal, in fact we took more home than we ate at the restaurant because of the laughing and talking we did. Then we went for a walk, got an ice cream and talked and laughed some more.
What stood out to me was how fabulous and different all 3 of them really are and how precious the time was that I got to spend with each of them in these times alone.
This is definitely something I want to do more often - it became apparent to me that not only is individual time important for me to spend with God, and how precious it is for husbands and wives to spend time alone, but also for parents and children to spend individual time with each other.
My hearts desire is that my children will not only see me as their mother but as a friend that they can always trust to love them, support them, and laugh/cry with them.
Thank you Lord for my children ~ they are the delight of my heart. Please let me be the mother they need me to be. In Jesus name, Amen.
