Blog Your Blessings Sunday & The Carnival of Family Life

This entry is a “two-fer” in that it fits both Blog Your Bless­ings Sun­day and the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life!

I am grate­ful every day for both of my kids, but today I’m focus­ing on my Mattie-Boo.

First of all, it seems that he has a secret admirer. The other day, I was in the liv­ing room gath­er­ing up my flute and music to go to my les­son. I was not yet fully dressed and, nat­u­rally, the door­bell rang. Drat! I scram­bled around quickly to get pre­sentable and breath­lessly opened the door to find that there was no one there. (Don’t you hate that?)

As I was clos­ing the door, some­thing pink caught my eye. I looked down on the wel­come mat and there was a card.

Why are you not see­ing it here? Well, I asked him to let me scan it, but the response was an emphatic, “NO, Mom,” with a very dis­gusted tone that said, “My mother is such a dork.” I asked him why I couldn’t just scan it to send to his god­moth­ers because it was so cute, but he was hav­ing none of it. And, in fact, his god­moth­ers lec­tured me for even ask­ing. As Rob put it, “Oh, Janie, how could you? BAD mother. BAD.” Jeez … ok, already!

Any­way, it was made of pink con­struc­tion paper folded in half. The front was dec­o­rated with the tra­di­tional hearts in a vari­ety of col­ors. Inside, the inscrip­tion read:

Roses are red,
Vio­lets are blue,
Bet you didn’t know
That I’m sweet on you.

And it was signed, “Your Secret Admirer.”

He swears he doesn’t know who deliv­ered it. If he does, I’m hav­ing no luck pry­ing the infor­ma­tion loose. There is one girl at his school, though, who def­i­nitely likes him. It might have been her.

The other thing that hap­pened this week is we received Matthew’s report card for the first semes­ter of his first year in high school. Matthew has always been a great stu­dent. But this is the first time he has ever got­ten ALL A’s (with a cou­ple of A-‘s but in this house those count as A’s). Check this out:

Woohoo! Way to go, Matthew!

It’s weeks like this that remind me of what Big­Bob said when I dis­cov­ered I was preg­nant, even though the plan was to only have one child: “Well, God had a bet­ter idea.” The Divine Cre­ator cer­tainly knows what is best for us, even though some­times it may not feel that way. Matthew was most assuredly meant to be part of our fam­ily and an ongo­ing bless­ing to his par­ents. I just couldn’t imag­ine life with­out my “Lit­tle Mattie-Boo.”

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On the Same Topic:

• Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life: The Merry Christ­mas 2009 — and Final — Edition
• Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life — Thank­ful­ness Edition
• Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life: Happy Hal­loween 2009 Edition
• Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life: Sep­tem­ber 2009 “Fall Into Fall” Edition
• Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life: August 2009 Edition