i love watching snl with zach on sunday mornings. i'm happy to watch it in the morning because i'm seldom up until 1am these days. i was up late last night engrossed in a movie, but it wouldn't dawn on me to watch snl without him. i know that by the time he's old enough to stay up until 1am, he'll be out with friends having fun. so i'm guessing (or hoping) that we'll still watch snl on sunday morning - at least until he leaves for college.
i like having these little rituals with him. silly times make for some of the best memories. it's also great when your child starts becoming an adult and you can share movies, theater, books and music that you really enjoy. i've sat through my share of kid movies, enjoyed some more than others. but this age has a little more taste and i have more in common with it than previous stages. i'm not saying that we agree or like all the same types of entertainment, but i can sit through the hangover and laugh and zach can truly enjoy frost/nixon or hamlet.
i like having these little rituals with him. silly times make for some of the best memories. it's also great when your child starts becoming an adult and you can share movies, theater, books and music that you really enjoy. i've sat through my share of kid movies, enjoyed some more than others. but this age has a little more taste and i have more in common with it than previous stages. i'm not saying that we agree or like all the same types of entertainment, but i can sit through the hangover and laugh and zach can truly enjoy frost/nixon or hamlet.
i've enjoyed zach at all ages...really. i wasn't wishing for the next stage and am really not now. as much as i look forward to seeing him as an adult and know that he'll still be the sweet and thoughtful person he is now, it means more about him having his own life. don't get me wrong, i've got my own life and a lot going on, but for 14 years he's been the first priority when thinking about or planning anything. it'll be odd when it's not that way. i didn't say bad, i said odd. i'm just trying to wrap myself around that concept.
wwcd: still looking forward to making more silly memories
wwcd: still looking forward to making more silly memories
Luckily it takes years for this to come to pass so we have more of a chance to make the subtle adjustments as we go... still, being there is odd, as you say, not bad, odd. Funny though, the boys still kind of think I do think of them as first priority ... takes a while for them to make that subtle shift too.
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