YOU DON'T FIND HUGS IN A BOTTLE

Another beautiful morning , the sun is
shining brightly , coffee is steaming in my favorite mug , hmmmm…. life is good , doesn’t get much better than this !!!! I am sitting here with my recent best friends, my pen and paper, enjoying sweet thoughts that have begun strolling through my mind. Thinking of some of the cute things our children come up with and how they can make us smile at any given moment , just because they are so innocently and honestly real ! Children just say it like it is , or what they think it is in their overly imaginative pure minds! One time in particular my little Trent came home from school after a long tiring day in a grade 2 classroom ! I had started him on vitamins that morning and was having a chat with him before he went off to his bus ! I asked him to try hard to focus in class today and to concentrate on his work , he wanted to know what focus meant ! I proceeded to explain as simply as I could ,that it meant not to turn your head and look around but sit straight and listen and then I gave him his vitamin as I hugged him before he went off to his bus and said this will help my big boy !!!! At the end of the day, as he was coming through the front door he starts telling me a little sarcastically , that I needed to take them vitamins back to the store ! Confused, I asked him why he thought that I should do that! he excitedly began to explain as he dropped his backpack on the floor, how he sat in his seat straight ahead just like I told him to do and when he tried to turn his head , it never stopped turning , all day long his head turned anytime he wanted it to !!! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, he actually thought the vitamin was a pill that would not allow his head to turn!! Sweetie the hug was to help you focus I explained smiling as I pulled him on my lap , the vitamins are to just help you to grow strong !!! He then looked at me with a sheepish grin and says , “ well momma!! you better give me more than one hug, cause that didn’t work either!“
There are far more benefits from inside a mommas arms than any bottle of "One a Days" could ever give!!! Sometimes our children, think momma’s have the cure for everything , and at times we do just with a hug!!! My boy is a grown man today, facing all the challenges that comes with running a household and life in general, at times I still see the little boy that thought the vitamin was the answer to his problem! But he soon discovered, you don’t find hugs in a bottle you get them best from momma’s arms and sometimes it may take more than one !!!!