My kids (Lulu)

Tonight was a night filled with sappy moments between my kids and it makes me realize just how lucky I am to have the kids that I do.


So this is my big gray hair.

And this is my little gray hair.

Yeah they have their moments, and yeah they can surely drive me crazy, but tonight I feel blessed.

We had such a great night bowling and we even took my son's girlfriend along.  Even with her there my son made sure and took the time to help his little sister.  He would go up there and coach her on ways to throw the ball.  He would cheer for her when she actually got a pin or two down.

At one point we were all laughing and she just stopped and looked at me and said "I am so lucky mom.  I have the best brother in the whole world."  She kept going up to hug him and he would hug her back. 

I don't know about any of you but that is NOT how I remember things with my brothers.  Our time spent together usually ended up with someone bleeding.  And you would NEVER catch any one of us admitting that we actually loved each other.

I almost started getting teary eyed (yes girlz, I know, that doesn't actually take much) when his girlfriend was telling me about how last week when they were at their dads he actually told her they had to put the phone call on hold because he needed to go tuck his sister in.  That has been the hardest thing for me with the divorce because I have tucked them in every night since they were born.  Knowing that he takes care of her and does it for me seems to make it a little better.

I couldn't ask for anything more right now.