The best conversations with Atticus happen just before bedtime... Somehow tonight our convo ended with me telling him he didn't have to go to college. Hope I don't live to regret that one!
A- I'm just having a really hard time going to sleep.
Me- I know. What do you think would help?
A- I need to have you with me.
Me- I can't always lay with you. What else might help?
A- Just you. I will ALWAYS need you to lay with me.
Me- Even when you're 18?
A- Will I be in Kindergarten when I'm 18?
Me- No, you'll be in college.
A- Where is that school?
Me- You can go anywhere you want. Somewere in town here or far, far away.
A- (Starting to cry). But I don't want to go far away.
Me- Well, it will be in a long time, like 20 years.
(Somehow the poor child has gotten the idea that we're sending him to Kindergarten boarding school and is getting increasingly upset. I hold him tight.)
Me- You don't have to go to college.
A- K (sniff, sniff). Thank you.
Sweet, sweet, sensitive Atticus. I love him so much!
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Reminds me of an evening long ago in the basement bedroom of one college student who had not started packing her things for her move to UW the next day. I recall her comment... "Do I have to go??? But I like it HERE."
Thanks, Mom, for outing me as a crybaby Momma's girl! ;)
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