Anyone here who has raised children probably has certain moments with their children that stick out in their minds, either because it was particularly funny (or seemed so at the time), or perhaps it wasn't funny at the time but might seem so now, or because it was a poignant moment, or for whatever reason, you find yourself thinking back on these moments. I have no children, by blood, but I adopted a young boy, had several foster children, and raised one of my nephews from the age of twelve. I'll start off with one, although I have others that I'll share later. My son was in bed asleep about 2:00 am on a Saturday morning. He was around nine years old then, I think. I was still up and bored, so I woke him telling him to get up or he was going to be late for school. He mumbled something, so I said, with more energy, "Get up! You have school!" I went back downstairs, and, a few minutes later, he came down the stairs dressed for school. "What are you doing up? It's 2:00 in the morning, and it's Saturday." "But, you said..."
So many I can't really pick out one. We had a lot of fun stuff with animals in Georgia when the older boys were little especially. Different animals in Alaska.
When my kids were little, we had a Shih-Tzu named Ming Toy. She learned to “sing” when we asked her to sing, because we discovered that if we made a high-pitched howling kind of noise , Ming Toy would howl along with us. Then, we started to say the word “sing” to her in that high pitched voice, and before long, she would happily sing when requested. Ming Toy went along with us most places, and one night we were at the county fair together, looking at all the exhibits. I noticed that all three of my kids had disappeared, and at the same time, I saw that there was a crowd of people forming a little ways away from where I was standing. Instantly concerned that it had something to do with my missing children (maybe they were watching whatever was going on ?), so I went over to see. What I discovered was a crowd of people with my 3 kids and Ming Toy in the middle, and Ming Toy was happily serenading the crowd, as my kids encouraged her on to keep singing. Another time, we had gone to church. Our pastor’s wife said that Ming Toy was not allowed to come into the sanctuary, but she was allowed to wait in their apartment, which was underneath the main part of the church . (The church was an old 3 story brick school building, and the pastor lived in the basement.) When we were all in church singing hymns, we could distinctly hear Ming Toy singing along from her place in the basement. I think that is the last time she was allowed to wait for us when we were in church, too.
It was my graduation day June 1989 and I wanted my boys to experience it with me. Before the ceremony began I wanted to take pictures of me so I handed the camera to my oldest son. It was a film camera. I was going through the pictures and I came across a lot of pictures of the men's urinals. I was like,'What the?' and called my oldest son about them. 'I didn't take those. Clayton must have I gave him the camera.' I couldn't help but laugh and still do when I come across them.