My Faith and Joy… and Boys!

You’ve heard of helicopter parents.  Now meet helicopter brothers:

(Oh, and for interpretation purposes, at the beginning of the video, Danny is describing “doing donuts” in the Ranger “with Daddy,” meaning his Daddy was spinning them around and around on the snowy driveway in the ATV – I suppose donuts could have been consumed at the same time, but they probably would have gone flying!)

I have a lousy memory (hence one of the reasons I keep this blog – so I can have a written record of my kids’ childhood, since I can’t reliably recall their birth dates, let alone their antics!).  But one of my strongest memories from early childhood is reading my first chapter book independently.  I don’t know what the title was, but I think it had something to do with hunting for treasure.  I remember laying on the couch in the living room happily turning page after page, and I can vaguely envision myself finishing the book in near darkness as the sun set outside our large picture window.  As I have thought back on that memory from time to time, I didn’t understand how I could have been reading in the dark – I wondered if my memory was playing tricks on me.  That is, until the other day, when I walked into our family room in the late afternoon and saw Becky lying on the couch, happily reading her first independent chapter book in a rapidly darkening room.  I had to stop myself from turning on a light to help her see –  I’d let her memory think back fondly on her dusky book reading…or if she has trouble remembering the evening she first lost herself in the private world of a story, she’ll now have it recorded here!

Not even a storm can stop these intrepid motorists (they come prepared with power tools for all snow-related pit stops!)