Remembering to Seize the Moment...

Or at least to let Xan seize the moment. Sometimes I forget that it's not about me, that I don't have to be the top of my game, and my son can really do things without me. I used to just let him create on his own, but somehow over time it turned into, "Not right now I'm tired...or busy...or not feeling up to it..." That's not what I aspire to be. That's not the kind of mom I want to be remembered as. So tonight when Xan was watching House Hunters International in Costa Rica, he wanted to paint a picture of an orange house on a beach with a wave. It's late Sunday night, we spent the day out of the house, I'm tired, I have homework to do, and my back hurts. My first response was no, but then I realized that there really wasn't any real reason he couldn't paint. So out came the paints, brushes and canvas board and my boy is having a good time.