A Question To DU Parents [View All]

I'd like for a few (hopefully more) of you to share with me some of the moments your kids have made your heart fill with all of the love that you have. This question is for you if your kids are in diapers because they're infants or in diapers because they're in a nursing home and 99 years old!

To be more specific, I've noticed that there are occasionally, little things that happen that make me look at my son and I feel such an upswelling of love, pride and affection that I can hardly put into words. The first time I noticed this was when my son was about 10 months old and was crawling around on our bed with us and, for the first time, saying "mama, mama" to ChicaAzul.

The most recent was a couple of weeks ago when I was frosting a cake that I had baked for the teachers at his school. He came to the table and looked at that cake with a look of joy and absolute LONGING that only a little boy of 5 can have. Normally, when I bake a cake for the family, I don't frost it (ChicaAzul isn't crazy about frosting), but this time I saved some and spread it on the slices that he got from the cake I'd baked for us that day.

Vary few people are one dimensional. There are times, like tonight, when I found out that my son acted like a little turd in school today, when I'd like to throttle him. Overall though, ChicaAzul and I realize what a special and wonderful little boy we are blessed with. When I was my son's age, President Kennedy was in office. I learned what a president could be because he was the first I knew. I was so excited at the thought that I'd be able to point to John Kerry and tell my son that HE was our President. Tragically, I point to the moron and say with TOTAL disdain "THATS the president. YUK!"

On top of that we have fools like dobson who want us to beat our kids and insure our sons' heterosexuality by taking them into the shower to play "who's got the biggest cock?"

I so much, as many of us do, want to leave a better world for him than I was handed. Our generation hasn't done a particularly good job of that, but we still have time.

Anyway, I ramble. What about your child or children causes your heart to swell? What are the special moments that you'll remember when you're 110?

Thanks in advance, and Peace!