Two weeks ago I took my boys fishing for the first time.
This was not their first time fishing, it was their first time fishing with their unexperienced mother. I mean how hard is fishing? You put the poles in the water and wait for the fish to take the bait, and you wait and wait and wait. Well, after getting hooked myself as my middle son casted his fishing pole I decided action needed to be taken. He managed to get the back of the chair but still I needed to figure out how to teach my son, it was the blind leading the blind.
Thank goodness for Mr. Paul who was visiting from Phoenix, Arizona who was fishing with his grandkids. He so graciously loaned us his pocket knife so we could cut or squeeze the things you would on a fishing-line. We bought worms to put as the bait and it was so gross. My middle son proudly took that on with the help of Mr. Paul.
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| Mr. Paul teaching my middle son how to cast and something else with his fishing pole. They lost me at worm. |
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| I am so proud of you son! |
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| How to hook a worm when you don’t want to touch it! |
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| We had to tell my toddler they were not gummy-worms, he couldn’t eat them. |
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| My heart is full….. |
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| Thank you God for my boys! |
After fishing I surprised my boys and took them out to dinner at their favorite Chinese restaurant. It was so nice to just sit and laugh with my boys. No schedules, no dishes to clean up, just TIME with my boys sitting and catching up.
After dinner on our ride home the kids turned up the radio, cranked up the heat and rolled down my windows in the car. We were all singing and laughing, not caring who was watching. At a red light my oldest asked me if I could freeze time when would I do it. I looked at him and I said this moment. I would want to freeze time and relish in this magical moment right now. I had to turn away because I felt the tears flowing from my face, I wiped them and we continued being goofy.
I stopped at the store to get some more goodies for our family movie night. By this time my boys were taking the energy they had in the car and displaying it at the store. I kept telling them to chill out and I even had to make eye contact a couple of times. Just then I ran into someone that I knew and I carried on a conversation for two minutes. When I went back to my boys who were indecisive about what chocolate they should get, they look at me weird. My oldest says, ” What happened to your face its all black on the side.” My children are adorable! NOT. They could have told me I had mascara on the side of my face prior. Figures I would be carrying on a conversation with black smudges all around and my children too engaged in their world of what chocolate they should get to inform me. Even with mascara on the side of my face, this would still be the day I would want to freeze time with my boys.
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I wanted my boys to get their own ice cream flavor so I bought each of them their own mini size, the two spoonful size. Along with cream puffs (OH goodness) and two kit kat bars we were on a sugar high. Adding the movie this was the best day ever, and this isn’t one of those “BIG Fish” stories either! I am hooked this day totally caught me off guard, this was THE. BEST. DAY. EVER… worm guts and all.
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