"You're practically a man! When did that happen?"

I love watching the Olympics, it provides for a nice distraction from Bar studying, and some of the events are beyond entertaining. That being said, all of the "Thanks, Mom" commercials being broadcast during the Olympics (P&G, a car company, etc) are totally killing me. Since having the boys, anything mother-son related is almost guaranteed to be tear-inducing for me -- and these commercials are the last thing a mother, who is already missing her two little guys terribly, needs! There is one commercial in particular that gets me every time -- it begins with a mother singing to her newborn baby in her hospital bed, and she continues singing as he gets older -- starts crawling, goes to school, gets into a fight, etc., and ends with her sitting in the stands at the Olympics. Crying. Every time.


There have also been frequent advertisements for a new show that will start after the Olympics, and before the boys left for NY, Sam and I were curled up on the couch, watching TV. The advertisement came on, and the mother said to her teenage son, "You're practically a man! When did that happen?" I repeated that to Sam, and he looked up at me, gave me a big smile -- like he was glad I had finally notice, and then snuggled closer, probably to reassure me that even as a big man, he's still going
to need his mama.

My mom keeps sending me pictures of the boys' adventures with Mimi and PeePaw -- and the pictures are great. But I don't recognize the practically grown men she's sending me pictures of! I gave her two little toddlers with baby faces -- and she's sending me pictures of boys I hardly recognize. She's reassured me that she hasn't "traded in" my boys, but I'm not so sure!