Sean said something to me a few days ago that really impacted me! He was just sharing one of his core memories from our second apartment with me. When he told that to me, I kind of felt a sense of pride and like, ”I did that!” But then it got me thinking that I should chronicle these things before I forget because what he told me a few days ago, I kind of forgot until you told me. I have been pretty forgetful these days but he’s been startling me lately!
The first time I was startled was probably in the late fall of 2018. He was still in high school. I had just had him bring the Christmas decorations up from the basement. We were passing each other in the small hallway and he casually told me that it was a good move to collect the ornaments every year like I did!
I think I was just making my way into the laundry room when I stopped because that statement completely astounded me! I told him that I knew what I was doing but I didn’t think that he noticed that I was making memories with our new ornaments each year!
Maybe a couple months ago or just a couple weeks but Sean said to me, again, very casually, “I don’t think that I could wake up at 4:30 in the morning every day to be at work at 7:30 for as long as you did!”
This was another instance that stopped me in my tracks! I just was doing what I had to do! But I think what he said to me just a few days ago really took the cake!
I am not sure what prompted this conversation but he told me that he has a core memory of me placing his site word cards on the multicolor carpet that we had in our living room. We actually had it in our house as well but we lost it when my water heater started to leak!
I think that I would sacrifice the carpet again to save everything else that’s in my basement which is what it did when my water heater leaked, which prompted my brother Ray and Sean to install a new one.
I guess that I have always been a teacher! What helped was that while we lived in our second apartment, I was going to school to get my masters degree. That degree was in education and came with a Reading Specialist endorsement so when I was at class, I was learning all of new, innovated, and effective ways to teach a child to read which is what I did. That fact kind of befuddles me today, I think.