I have more pictures from T's birthday. I have pictures from apple picking and things that have been going on around here. I even have a picture of a picture collage I finished with my hubby last night at 10pm. But that isn't what's on my mind.
So we watched conference on Sunday and had my mom, dad and uncle over for dessert after it. It was all lovely and they even played games too. After everyone left, I went up to get the kids to bed and since the tv was already on byutv, my husband got sucked into watching some shows. One in particular has now been watched at least three times in our house this week. It's called The 5000 Days Project. It's a documentary where this guy films the lives of these two brothers from about ages 8 and 10 until they are 19 and 21. He interviews them and asks them questions about what they want to be when they grow up and if they like each other. If you have boys in your family....watch it. If you ever wonder if your sons will ever stop fighting and will they really become best friends some day...watch it. K watched and cried. Then we watched it together and cried. And then we watched it for FHE. We then took the video camera and had privately taped interviews with each of our kids. We asked them all sorts of questions about their lives right now and about how they feel, what they like, what they like about our family and what they wished we did different. We even asked them how they thought we were doing as parents and what we could do better. Just like the documentary, we plan to keep doing this as the kids grow up.
Now the reason I changed my mind....
All this week since big T has turned 11, we have kept saying how awesome it is that next year he will turn 12 and become a Deacon and go into YM, get the priesthood and get to go with dad to conference. After watching the film and literally seeing these boys grow up, I realize I don't want T to grow up. I'm terrified for him to go into YM. I like him being the older, wiser kid in primary and not the easily swayed 12 year old with the 17 year olds. As his mom, I'M NOT READY!!!
So when he got home from school, I told him to stop growing up...he is pretty obedient. I think he will do it. Phew...that was a close one!!