Last weekend in a restaurant, a nice retired couple gave us a compliment about our family “you have a wonderful family”, just like a few couples we’d met before at different restaurants. I always appreciated the compliments and replied “thank you, we were blessed”. I don’t think it’s because of our well dressed children that gave the impressions to these old couples, I believe it’s the happiness shown on our children faces and the way they love each others. Children don’t lie, their happiness shows and they can’t fake it. Yes, we’re truly blessed because we’re able to raise our children to be happy and loving little people. Yes, we’re truly blessed because we know what it takes to make them happy and luckily we have the patient and the love to give them. I noticed parents always boast that their kids are great in school, so smart, play musical instruments so well, but I never heard anyone who complains that their children laugh so hard that they snort. My wife always get embarrass when my daughter snorts when she laugh so hard. We’re always so happy to hear my 4 year old son giggling out loud while watching “Kungfu Panda” by himself in the back of the car. We’re so glad that they have great sense of humor. We’re so happy to see them being friendly with everyone. Yes, my 6 year old daughter haven’t held any musical instruments or try any, but she loves to draw and she draws very well. My 4 year old son doesn’t know how to spell his name and barely finishing ABC. They do fight with each other about things, but they do love each others. They laugh, they play and they do their home work. They’re extremely obedient to their mom, I’m no body in the family, of course :-). My children love to ride on my back as their horse and play ninja fighting with me. They can play for hours on the weekend without being tired. We tickle each others when we wake up in the morning or before we go to bed. We’re just like kids and our children love it. We know children are children and they need to be loved the way they want to be loved, not the way we want to love them. Time flies and when they get older, we will not regret that we didn’t give them the time of their lives, the children lives.
Yes, we have to go to work, we have to do our chores and we have to have time for our children, it’s not an easy job, but somebody got to do it, and both of us do. We don’t have much time for friends, but we have time for family. We do everything together and always. We are the parents that live for family not just children alone because happy family actually makes happy children and not the other way around at least in our opinion.
Our children may not have a PhD when they’re 23 but they will not suicide when they graduate college or not with honor and feel lonely and unloved.
Yes, we’re blessed because we have a wonderful family.
Cheers,