What Moments Would You like to Remember Forever?

i wish i could remember all the moments :) tonight i was putting my 4 year old to bed, and he asked for a "talking story" (as opposed to a "reading story" - book). i asked him what he would like it to be about, and he says to me with these glowing giant eyes and this beautiful smile, "what about the one about the little boy who loved his mommy SOOO MUCH!"

ooey-gooey moment there! :)

Every night at dinner we pull a question out of a can to answer. One night, the question was "What do you want to be when you grow up?" My husband started listing all the things that a child could be, a doctor, lawyer, ballerina. My sweet little three year old said " I want to be a mommy, my mommy is a good mommy, she can teach me". I cried. My hubs didn't get it!

Ah, there are so many to choose from...

We had serious financial difficulties in the wake of my eldest son's ski accident. My younger son hugged me one day and said, "Mom, someday I'll earn enough money to pay the mortgage for you!"

I was tucking my younger son into bed and told him I loved him. He replied, "Mom, the more you imagine the more I love YOU."

I was driving to school with my eldest son one day (he was a freshman...I teach at his school) and he says to me, "You know, Mom. Thanks for such a great childhood. It's been great fun!"

But, perhaps the very best of them all was learning that some of my students were saying very mean, awful, nasty things about me on the bus ride home. My eldest son turned to these guys and very deliberately said, "That's my MOTHER you're talking about! If you all would sit down, shut up AND DO YOUR WORK, she wouldn't have to get on your case. So, you had better RETHINK who has the problem here!" I cried when I heard that...and it worked, too, because these kids actually straightened up.

Great idea for a post...

I was painting and my 2 1/2 yo son had strayed from his video and come in and I was annoyed because it was the only hour of the day I had to myself and I heard him clanking around behind me. Afraid he had gotten into my brushes or paint, I whirled around only to see him carefully toddling towards me carrying my jiggling coffee to me from the table saying "Here mom", when I took it and said "thank you" He said, "Ooooh mom I love it!" pointing at my painting. Melt melt.

One always comes to mind: my daughter was taking speech since she was 18 months. she wasn't talking at all. I used to spend so much time with her, grabbing her face and saying: i love you i love you i love you over and over and over again. i had about given up i would hear it back. then one night, after tucking her in, i did the same thing, but only once. it was late, i was tired etc. i turned around to leave and i heard:
i wow you mommy.
i turned around jumped in with her and said again. she said it again. i said again, she said it again. my husband had to come in the room to get me out. i don't remember how long i stayed asking her to say that to me. and she would just smile and say it back. it's like she knew how much i needed to hear it. i will never forget that night.

Holding my NB baby and my "day to myself" with her right before she was adopted by my friends...

That was the only moment I was her "mom" after she was born (b/c of course I was her mom when she was in the womb...lol).

I don't regret my decision or anything and I have a great relationship with the partents but I will never have that moment again...and it is such a special memory. :-D

Of course, all the moments surrounding my son's birth, which are already becoming alarmingly fuzzy. :(

But this moment is one that I want to remember forever.

My son and I were getting ready to go to his little friend's birthday party. Their birthdays are 2 weeks apart, and they were turning 4. I had on a pair of jeans, a sweater, and a pretty necklace... nothing out of the ordinary, really. My son was sitting on the floor and I was putting on his shoes, and he looked up at me, his eyes lit up and he grinned from ear to ear, and he said, "You look pretty, Mommy!"

Talk about melting my heart... There is no compliment that any man on earth could give me that would make me feel more special than my 4 year old son did in that moment. I never want to forget it.

And this one...

We leave all our loose change laying around on the counter so my son can gather it all up to put it in his piggy bank. He is saving all our loose change to use for a vacation once his piggy bank is full.

So in 2011, to my surprise (and disgust), my health insurance raised my urgent care copay from $50 (a lot), to $150 (insane). I had gone to MedExpress twice in January for 2 stupid injuries that I thought might need xrays (slipped on ice, and fell sled riding). So I get the bill in the mail for the remainder of my copays, $100 each, meaning I owed an additional $200. This was just after the holidays, my son's birthday, etc., and I had been dealing with pain from these 2 injures, and I had just had it that day when I got the bills, so I broke down in tears. (I can scrounge to pay the bills, I was just really frustrated at that moment.) So my son overheard me telling my fiance about these bills, and he sees me crying. He goes in his room and comes out and hands me his piggy bank and gives me a hug. Doesn't say a word, just relinquishes his vacation savings to me. He's five, btw. (Of course I didn't take it. :)

These moments just let us know that we're doing *something right* with our kids...

Great post.

the moment I first looked into the faces of my two children....(course my youngest was screaming his head off!) I have been thinking about this all day because it is my oldest's birthday....

My little one recently handed me her change and told me that i could buy my medicine. What a beautiful jesture.... but also made me realize that my 6year old is over hearing adult conversation :(

My 3 year old has recently started telling me he " I love you mommy, and your hair looks beautiful" I love it!! He usually comes up to me and puts his arm around me to tell me that. He also likes to come and tell me that I am the best mommy in the world, which really...is amazing. Today my one year old engaged me in a game of peek-a-boo, he was putting one of his chubby lil hands over his eyes, sort of right between his eyes and then throwing it off while making this big giggly/cooing noise. Something similar to "ta-da!" baby style. It was just beyond adorable...there are so many more...but I would keep you here all day!! Those are at the top of my charts at the moment :D Kids are the bomb!!

rocking my 7 month old DD to sleep in her room during the day when we're home alone and it's so quiet. I want to bottle up these days and save them forever.

The first time my son came running full force at me to give me a hug and exclaimed, without anyone telling him to do so, "I love you mommy!" This memory is so precious to me because he has autism and I had been told before that he would never talk and because all of the autism books that I had read when he first got the diagnosis indicate that ASD children have difficulty connecting or showing interest in other people. They were wrong!

When I was sitting on the couch with my daughter and watching a movie, I surprised her with a little tickle. When she finally stopped laughing, she put both of her hands on the side of my face and looked deeply in my eyes before saying, "You are the coolest mom ever!" and giving me a big kiss. And at that moment, I really did feel like I was the coolest mom ever, in the history of the Universe.

Last but not least, walking up to the altar on my wedding day, I was very nervous and worried about tripping in front of everyone (yeah, that's how my mind works!). When I finally reached the front, all safe and sound, I looked at my handsome, handsome husband who was smiling at me with such love in his eyes, and then he whispered to me, "You look beautiful." I've never dreamed of being a princess but I did feel like one at that moment.

So those are some of the moments that I would love to remember forever.

I have my moments, with each of my boys. Not everyday necssarily(?). I love when they come naturally. Whether it be slow dancing with my oldest. to rocking out with my middle. my youngest developed what his occupational therapist call zephyr kisses. he will come blow in my ear. the turn his head and go ''me!'' so i blow in his ear. then he turns and gives me big kiss and says love you mommy. Those moments are our treats from parenting. Treats for all the other times they have made you nuts. or want to pull your hair out.

I see each of my boys as these lil beings that have feelings, humor, saddness, love, compassion. We are her to show them how and when to use all of them!

Libby

All of them, good and bad.

When 3 yo DD suddenly decides to grab my face in her little hands and make a "zerbert" on my cheek.

And all the times she randomly says, "I love you Mommy!", like in the check-out line at the store.

And when we shared ice cream and popcorn during some downtime amongst all the hectic craziness that is Disney World.

My three year old is into lots of hugs and kisses right now. He will give me a huge hug and then kiss me on both cheeks. It is so sweet.

I have all the "I love you mommy" moments and they are so special but the one that sticks out in my mind is when my daughter who was 20 at the time said "thanks for being my mom and not my friend when I was a kid". Now, I hated to tell her that I thought she still was a kid. She had told me about alot of her friends and how their moms would be their friends and not set limits or boundaries. She said she was so happy she had a mom who cared enough to say no.

My son's was when he asked me to go to the swearing in ceremony when he enlisted into the Army National Guard. We had gone round and round on that but at the end of the day, I could not make his decisions and live his life. He wanted me there and I wanted to be there because it was the most important decision of his life. Oh and when he was little he would run down the hall after bath time in his batman jammies yelling "Chaseman"! Yeah, my kids are great! I'm one lucky mom!!!!

When my 4 year old tells me "mommy...you're the BEST!"

Also, when my 20 month old dances...too cute!

There are so many, but a few that immediately come to mind...I love when my son just randomly comes up and says "Mommy, let's snuggle, buggle together" And when he was little he used to ask what I was doing when I was putting on make-up and I told him it helped Mommy be pretty and he said "Mommy, you always look pretty" My daughter is only 11 months old, but I love when she gets tired she sucks on her first finger, hugs her "lovey blanket" and just snuggles her head on my chest...it's the best feeling b/c she isn't very snuggly.

Everyday when my daughter looks up with her big blue eyes and says "I love you Mommy!"

I also hope that I never forget the way it felt when my daughter was a baby and would fall asleep on me while laying on the couch. I miss that greatly when the world around is so busy but that little baby still falls asleep laying on you or in your arms without a care. I was reminded of this hold my almost year old cousin sitting in a recliner, while at a bridal shower this weekend. She just fell asleep while watching me doodle on a piece of paper, so precious. I feel so calm and at peace with the world holding a sleeping baby.