Family Thoughts

From Atlanta. Been with Sam and Jack since Friday. Parents coming back this afternoon. It is amazing how much I've forgotten about young boys! I'm suffering from the same problem I had with my sons at this age - offering options rather than giving clear directions - orders, really. I just don't make a very good sargeant. Ordering is not my style. Suggesting is - which doesn't work with young boys, of course. Of course, in my defense, I'm rarely with them more than a couple days and each time I have forgotten what I learned the time before. True, when I watch the parents, I see things I did differently, but I don't tell them. The one thing I know about raising children - it seems that no matter how much we do wrong, they grow up into lovely people anyway - perhaps in spite of us - and perhaps they are only lovely in a mother's eyes. But, lovely they are - both my sons. In my moments of reflection, I know nothing is more valuable than family, absolutely nothing. Thanks be to God! Mine is blessed with good health.