It’s funny because I was going to write this blog before I went to Mass this evening, however, I see why He led me to wait till this moment to share a bit of this evening from Heaven I had with my boys. Mass was a joy, as usual, the message was clear – DO NOT WORRY! Why worry? God will take care of all of our needs.
Later the boys asked if I would take them to one of our favorite Mexican food restaurants. I was happy to go but wanted badly to have some other ‘adult’ conversation. Neal was busy golfing with work people and had gone to Mass already this morning. I called others I’d known who had been at Mass with us to see if they wanted to join us but no one was available. Regardless, we went to the restaurant and proceeded to play a game of ‘Go Fish’ with the cards Seth has taken to carrying around with him. Once Ryan won the game and we ordered somehow the conversation got to ‘if we had a million dollars’. I latched onto the teaching moment in this conversation and talked about how much they should GIVE ‘if’ they had a million dollars. I spoke about someone that we knew that has a million dollars and how much this person gives FIRST and then takes care of their needs. We got to talk about not spending more than what we have and being frugal about what we buy, etc.
Somewhere along the way, I don’t know how or why, we began talking about kids that don’t have families or homes. Which got us on the topic of foster families. Long story short, they began to beg me to become a foster family. We discussed what that would entail, how they might get jealous with the time and funds we spent on the foster child, especially because the child might not have been loved very much to begin with. In the end they were begging me even more to not only take one child but two! 🙂 I told them we would have to talk to Dad about all of this and that another issue we have is remembering Dad and his MS…would that be fair to a foster child to have to learn all the moods and everything that comes with having this disease? Seth said he take the child under his wing.
I just love my kids. 🙂
At the end of the meal I thought about our original conversation about giving and how good it felt to give. So I gave them each $5 bills and told them to give them to whichever buss boy that they chose as we left. They asked why the buss boys and I told them it was because they don’t get the tips like the waiters do. I gave the waiter a great tip as well and as we walked out the boys picked the two lucky guys. When we made it to the car they were grinning like Chester cats. It was adorable! They both were gushing about how much ‘fun’ that was!
Just now, as Neal walked in the door apparently they told Neal I needed to talk to him about something. Neal sat down and said, “So, what is it you need to talk to me about?” Honestly, I’d forgotten! I couldn’t believe they were truly that intent on the subject. So I told Neal about our conversation on being a Foster family and Neal kind of laughed, got up and said, “Well, let’s say I’m not opposed to the idea.”
Hmmm…I don’t know if this is a beginning into a new chapter for us a family? I suppose we’ll discuss this more when we go on vacation this week and see what comes of it.
Blessings
Shannon