Letters to my son

You have this little boy,  he is perfect, he is small, he is part of you.  I remember like it was yesterday he was so brand new and I was so young only in my early 20s.  I remember looking at him and thinking, "wow I'm responsible for him, without me he wouldn't stay alive, I have to do everything for him and I have to teach him EVERYTHING"

Life with young children is filled with so much work, feeding, bathing, life's basic lessons, how to behave properly....you get through those early years and hope you did it all right.....then from around the ages of 4-10 it gets really easy.  Your hard work on teaching independence and how to behave has paid off.    It can't get any better than this.......but it goes by so quickly.

Now my little boys in 11,  a middle schooler already and I only have so much time left with him.  I get this overwhelming feeling sometimes that here are so many more things I need to teach him but when?   Our days are filled from sun up to sun down with school, homework, you have to get in your trumpet practice!, have you done your chores?, soccer, youth group, how will I have time to cover all the "life lesson" he needs to know?  I try to use what little time I have to get in those chats, but it is hard.

Today his technology became my friend.   I made my blog a favorite on his kindle with instructions to read it each morning, and on mornings that there is not a new post to ponder my last post.

Letters to my son.  They will be a mix of everything, how to be a gentleman, God's promises, things I really want him to know.

 I know I will not capture all I need to say and I know he will not always follow this advice but it will always be here in these letters and even if one day I am not here to remind him he will always have them to read.

Here is to hoping he reads them.