Daddy!  Bubbles!

Right in the middle of my busy day (working at home), I’m interruped by my son Connor asking me to do bubbles with him.  I couldn’t really break away so my response to him was “bubbles later”.  As most 2-years olds are, this answer only satisfied him for about 46.1 seconds.  After that time elapsed, he was back to saying: “Daddy!  Bubbles!”  My workload hadn’t decreased during 46.1 seconds (approximate guess) so my response was the same “bubbles later”. 

This went on for a while throughout that day and, before I knew it, the day slipped away and Connor was in bed before I remembered what I told him.  It was probably the next day or two that now, instead of asking for bubbles, he pointed to the bubbles and said (kinda of sadly) “bubbles later daddy”. 

I almost lost it.  It hit me right then and there that, although he’s only 2 years old, I’m building parenting habits now!  He now thinks that the bubbles is pronounced: “b-u-b-b-l-e-s_l-a-t-e-r“.  He is at such a crucial stage where his personality and judgments are being formed and I blew it! 

Later on that day, I made sure that me, Heidi, and Connor went to the park to play bubbles.  Those simple words were enough of a wake up call to me that I need to honor my word to my son and truly live a life of no regrets.

Servant of a wicked cool God,

Matt Legere