One of my favorite parts about being a mom is the nightly routine. Most nights we switch off, Dru gets one boy while I get the other. We both read to our "assigned" child and then I do prayers with them both and we get a little chance for some good ole pillow talk. This week has been some pretty interesting conversation.
Arun and I had "the TALK" on Monday night. He shared with me that he has decided he is too old to call me Mommy in front of his friends. It is just too embarrassing. So he told me he will now start calling me "Mama." I started to laugh and told him that if he expects me to acknowledge him in front of his friends, "Mama" isn't the right choice. He smiled, giggled and said, "yeah, I thought I was stretching it, will mom be OK?" Isn't he just too cute? While I'll admit to you, my heart was a tiny bit crushed, it also made me smile. These are the little things I used to miss when I was sleeping in a hotel room instead of being home with my boys. These are the conversations that I need to have with them and I am so grateful to have the opportunity.
As pillow talk goes, tonight was just as interesting. Tonight is Thursday and it was my turn with Ryun. He picked an amazing book called Too Many Toys. I read it and there were many times that I would laugh and change the name of the little boy in the book to Ryun because it was such a perfect fit. At the end of the book we got to pillow talk time - what a doozie. Ryun let me know tonight that he has recently given his blanket a middle name. The boys both received blankets from my cousin Heather as gifts when they were born (she gave us GC for Pottery Barn and I ordered them the blankets...these are priceless treasures to my boys). Arun started to call his "main-key" and it stuck, they both have "mainkies" that are a constant at bedtime. Tonight Ryun let me know that his blanket will now be know as Mankie Pevercy BUCK. Yes, Pevercy - pronounced Pev-er-cee. Again, I couldn't help but giggle, this stuff is just too funny.
Where they come up with these things I will never know, but I can tell you this, I left Ryun's room tonight saying THANK YOU GOD, thank you for this night, thank you for these memories, thank you for my boys and most of all thank you for making me their mom.
