Another uneventful week has flown by....day in, day out.....basically the same thing. However, I am content with that. It seems like it's been a week of bad news for several of my friends....one group of friends lost a former classmate to ovarian cancer....one group lost a friend to stupidity, a life over at 22 years of age.....got news of another friend being on drugs which tore me up for a couple days, but had to hand it over to God (after I said my peace to that person, of course)...just yucky stuff that I hate to hear about.....THEN....I had the good experience.....
I think we all question if we are doing the right thing when we are raising our kids, I KNOW I did.....I wondered if I was being too hard on him, then sometimes I thought I was too soft....but when you go into a restaurant and someone introduces you to someone as your child's mom and they just brag on what a great guy your son is and how polite, and respectful and just plain NICE....then it's confirmation that you've done something right! I can't take all the credit, God did a big work in that young man, so I have to give Him the glory, I just get to partake in it and I pretty much enjoy it. I guess I should have known many years ago the type of person he would turn out to be, when he jumped up from a dinner table in a restaurant with his daddy telling him to get back to the table and sit down because he thought he was just going outside to run and play with his cousin.....He couldnt have been much older than 10 or 11.....but he wasn't getting up to do that! He saw an elderly lady struggling with the door to get a man in a wheelchair in...and he went to hold the door for her!! She tried to pay him $20 and just kept telling us what a fine young man he was.....I have to say I was as shocked as they were. Kris was never a "bad" kid....but he was always a BIG boy....way bigger than all the boys his age, and while you would think that the other boys wouldn't want to mess with someone so much bigger, it was the opposite. I think they saw him as a "conquest", if they could whoop him, they would be looked at differently....only thing was, they COULDN'T whoop him! lol and it always seemed to be the one kid that was always fighting someone that would pick Kris to jump on, and alot of times they learned a very big lesson! lol Middle school was a tough time for him, I was called to the school so many times because of his fighting, but he NEVER started it....they finally told me that if he got in one more fight, they were going to have to label him as an "unruly" child and he would have to go to alternative school.....don't think for one second that I didn't threaten this child within an inch of his life, if I got called to that school one more time!
Fast forward 6 years, Kris is now a firefighter for our county and I couldn't be prouder! He's a people magnet, they just love him. He has a great personality, but still can push my buttons at times. He's had great role models in his life, from his Dad, football coaches, to friend's Dad's, he's just a man's man.
I don't know why God blessed me like he has, I must be doing something right somehow.
Dustin is following in his brothers footsteps....he's in middle school....that's all I'm gonna say.....I have to keep reminding myself of what we went through with Kris and that God's got this!! ha ha
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