Another Blogroll Friday

We all have some favorite blogs we read before anything else.

How often do you click on someone else's blogroll?  It's a way less stressful way to make connections than selling Girl Scout cookies.  I was one of those not-so-aggressive salespeople who'd let my finger hover over the doorbell for what felt like half an hour.  If someone actually managed to answer the door before I could sneak away I'd say something forceful like: "You don't want to buy Girl Scout cookies, do you?"

This week I'm continuing my practice of telling you what to do list of suggested blogs with another favorite: Antique Mommy, one of the most graceful writers I've ever read.  She writes mostly about her treasured four-year-old boy, Sean, whom she loves so extravagantly and overwhelmingly that it hurts.  Her stories remind me of life with Robespierre when he was very small.

"Earlier in the winter, Sean and Antique Daddy set about the task of planting a small seedling in our backyard. When they were finished, they stood back, hand in hand, to admire their work. Antique Daddy bent down on one knee and pulled Sean to him. “Sean,” he said, “Some day, a long time from now, when you are an old man, as old as Papa George, I want you to come back here to this very spot.  I want you to look at this tree and remember that you and I planted it."

Sean made that awkward long face that he makes when he's trying not to cry.  Then he looked up at his daddy with big fat tears threatening to tumble down his face.  he shrugged his shoulders and held out his hands with his palms up, the universal gesture of bewilderment.

"Sometimes," he whispered and then paused thoughtfully.

"Sometimes I want to grow up... and then sometimes... I don't."  And then he shrugged again.

Oh Sean.  That's exactly how your mommy and daddy feel.  Sometimes we want to see you grow up into a man with a life of your own.  And sometimes we want to keep you a little boy forever."

Are you crying?  I am.

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Comments

[Antique Mommy]

Aw man! Thanks for the kind words and the link. You are my favorite person for the rest of the day. :)

[Kim]

I just dropped by the site. They have a great blog and I love reading other mommy blogs.