pamelamyers | March 5, 2015
Ok, ok, last snow of the season, right? It had better be! It’s March for goodness sake! It was a heavy one, lots and lots of snow totaling about 10 inches and this one did wind up cancelling school and work. What a day! It started early and just kept coming. Sam, of course, had a great time. Mark took her sledding then I stayed outside our house playing with her for a while. She certainly looks quite at home in the snow, doesn’t she? Where this kid came from, I have no idea. She definitely didn’t get my anti-cold genes! [Mark – She gets that from my Dad, he is like a polar bear in the snow. I don’t think I have ever heard him say once that he was cold, and we used to do a lot outdoors in the winter.]
The coolest part of the day, by far, was that when Mark took Sam sledding, a reporter from our weekly, local paper, The Springfield Press, took their picture! Although he misspelled our last name (why does this not surprise me) despite Mark’s spelling it into the guy’s tape recorder. Oh well. They are still famous! Sam cracks me up though. When I opened the paper the day it came, hoping that her picture would be there, I was so excited! I showed it to her and made a huge fuss and her reaction was basically, yeah, I bet the other people whose picture is in here are excited too. Um, Sam? You are 5 and in the newspaper. It’s pretty cool! Oh well, I guess it’s good it didn’t go to her head!
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pamelamyers | March 4, 2015
I wish for the life of me I could recall what Mark, Sam and I were discussing, but Sam was sitting next to me on the couch and in response to something we said, she said, “When I have my own children, I will….” What she would do, I can’t remember for the life of me. I think I have blanked it all out. The thought of Sam being old enough to have kids is mind blowing. And it surprised me because until now, every time I have even casually mentioned when she has her own kids, she completely would put a kibosh on that idea and tell me she wasn’t having any. I guess being a mom doesn’t look so bad after all. We tried to follow up on the conversation and did determine that if she could choose, she wants a girl, but she wouldn’t tell us what name she would pick. Oh boy. Sam as a mom. Frightening, because of how old I will be, but also awesome. I want her to get married, have kids, have a family of her own. We have so little family here in the area that I want her to create her own family when she grows up so that she always feels surrounded by people she loves. Maybe she will choose a partner with a whole houseful of brothers and sisters. That would be so nice for her. Sam will be the best mom, I just know it. There is no way she could not be. She is so kind, so thoughtful, so sweet. And she is protective of those she loves. Can’t ask for much more than that.
P.S. If I had to guess, I would bet that Mark and I were telling her she couldn’t do something and she was saying when she has her own kids she will be able to boss them around. Just a guess based on past conversations. A good guess. Trust me.
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