Slice of Life is sponsored every Tuesday by Stacey and Ruth from Two Writing Teachers. For the month of March we are challenging ourselves to write a Slice A Day.
Last
March during the Slice of Life Challenge I wrote about parenting. You can read
it HERE. I was thinking about being a parent yesterday. Mainly because my boys
seem to be growing up so fast.
Independent
Feed
Dress
Entertain
themselves.
Stay home
on their own.
Walk to
and from school.
Bike to
friends.
Huge
Luke has ½ inch to pass me
Liam’s
feet are just about my size.
Friends
Most days
they play together
Planning
out what they are doing.
Ten and
seven
How have
the years gone so fast?
There are
days I pray that they will slow down.
And then,
last night Luke said he didn’t feel well. He didn’t want dinner. He didn’t want
ice cream. WHAT? And then, the upchucking began. Oh boy. Looking at his face –
so sick and so sad. He knew this meant a friend coming over in the morning had
to be cancelled. A sleepover too. He didn’t look so old anymore. In that ten-year-old
face I could see the little boy he had been. It was a brief moment. I
reassured, rubbed his back, prayed he’d feel better.
I glanced
over at the sink, looked at my toothbrush. Uh oh, where my toothbrush usually
resided was Luke’s. We have the same style. I must have grabbed his this morning
by accident. He leaned over to get sick again, and my stomach dropped. Here’s
hoping that my body decides to rock this virus and I don’t end up in this same
position by tonight. Darn flu.
