Day 19: Time with John

Getting away this weekend was just what I needed . . . time with my boy before he goes away to college at the end of summer.

When this basketball tournament comes around each year, we usually go as a family of 5. With Pete being short help at work, he couldn’t leave for a whole weekend. Andrew knew there were already a lot of players going and knew he wasn’t going to get a lot of playing time, so he decided that it wasn’t worth missing Friday’s classes. Tessie didn’t feel like spending her days watching basketball games and her nights hearing about basketball. So it turned out being just John and me. As soon as we headed out he turned to me and said, “It’ll be fun this weekend, just the two of us, Mom. We haven’t done this in a long time.” He’s right. It’s usually the boys with Pete and Tessie with me, or the boys with me and Tessie with her dad, but rarely is it me with just one of the boys.

Today has been about doing whatever he wants. He decided that we could go with his cousins to have a late breakfast before his Saturday games, but he chose to go with the team for dinner. Sometime during the day the boys on the team decided they didn’t want to join the parents for dinner and they would rather order pizza and hang out at the hotel lobby watching March Madness games. I asked John if he would like to join the team and I go with the parents or if he would like to come with to the dinner or if he would like us to go out with the cousins or go somewhere just the two of us. He decided to go ahead with the planned team dinner. He didn’t mind if the guys weren’t there because “I hang out with them throughout the day, so I’d like to go with you. Um, I can order a steak, can’t I?”

I love that he makes decisions based on the food being offered. I love that he loves spending time with me. I love that he loves me. I love the boy that made me a mom. I love my John Boy 💙