In Real Life

As Forrest Gump so poetically said once, "It Happens."

What happened?  I messed up.  Yes, I know you're shocked (just kidding), but I now have a permanent stain on my Mom record.

Last night was the Spring Spectacular 2014 Choral program, and I forgot my camera!!!!!!!
I could live w/o another pic of Show Choir, but I can't get back the amazing performance of Evan and his cousin Elysa.  He accompanied their duet on the piano.  Oh to be able to Play & Sing!!  And I didn't record any of it.  :(

But to digress just a bit.  I have also done the following:

• Slept on a futon bed with him until he was 3 because he had to hold my thumb while he slept
• Cleaned up volumes of puke
• Not made a big deal of him wanting to eat only marshmallows and Popsicles for a season
• Rubbed his back as he cried over: a fish that died, a hermit crab that died, a horse that died....
• Woke him up COUNTLESS numbers of times so that he wouldn't miss the bus, be late for a ballgame, miss out on a ride to {wherever}, wouldn't be late for school, etc
• Endangered my own life when I climbed hundreds of stairs to ride roller-coasters with him at Mt. Olympus in Wisconsin Dells
• Washed load after load after load of really putrid soccer gear, ick!
• Sat in the sun, wind, rain, and even snow at countless ballgames
• Dog-paddled in the deep in to catch him jumping off the diving board before he learned how to swim well enough on his own

And I'm sure I could keep going...but you get the idea because if you're a mom, you've done it too.

Still, I messed up last night and forgot the camera for the choir show.

For that I am sorry and I hope that one day (even if it's 20 years from now) he will forgive me.

On the other side of that, for once, instead of looking at life through a video recording....I just looked at life.

And even though I had messed up, just watching and listening in real life, well....it was pretty sweet.