On Being a Mother...
I was sitting at the kitchen table with my 11-year-old son, discussing his Christmas list which he had sourced himself on the internet due to his mother’s terrible lack of organisational skills.
“You can get all of it on Amazon,” he was telling me, “and if you go for the second-hand options I can get five PS2 games and five books. And of course a surprise” he added, with a frown.
It was then he noticed his 8-year-old stepsister, eyeing us with concern. He paused.
“The thing is,” he directed at her “when you are my age Santa only brings you a couple of small presents, because he saves the best for the little ones”.
She looked satisfied, and went back to her supper. He winked at me knowingly. I felt a surge of love for my lovely, thoughtful, kind little boy and remembered my siblings cruelly disabusing me of the Santa myth when I was only three or four. Perhaps I have not been such a bad mother, I thought to myself, to produce such a lovely son. And my eyes welled with tears.
“Mum!” he said with disdain.
“What on earth are you crying about?!”
Oh, the joys of motherhood.
5 comments:
How sweet of your boy! God, I still remember how punctured I felt when I realised Santa wasn't real - the magic had totally gone, and I was so jealous of my brothers, who still believed, but I kept the truth to myself. I actually hid with the cat and wept.
He sounds lovely. If you haven't done your Amazon order you'd better snap to it as tomorrow is the last day for guaranteed delivery before Christmas.
Thanks you folks - he is a sweety and I hope that secondary school doesn't knock it out of him. It's still hard for boys to be kind and loving, I think. Pants, he had me on target for ordering in time! He is very organised.
What a sweetheart. Being so considerate at such a young age is a gift. Feel proud of him and PLEASE buy him some pressies.
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Hi Caroline,
please be reassured that the wonderful thing about Santa is that he brings you lovely surprises, even if you don't believe in him anymore! How kind is that?
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