What IS it with me and kids these days??
It's no secret to anyone who knows me to any degree that I'm a BIG-TIME kid person. I love being around kids, and they seem to like being around me most of the time. Whether we're talking about three-year-old boys or 10-year-old girls at my church, I seem to gravitate to that group of people MUCH quicker than I do the adults in my life. As I said in that column I put a link to in my last post, I very much want to be a dad someday when the time is right. I guess my question is, why does it seem like even more kids are coming out of the woodwork lately to feed that desire?
Liv and I babysat Thursday night after I got off work for this couple at church, and we had an AWESOME time with these two kids -- that three-year-old boy, and his six-year-old sister, who has some special needs. Liv and I both left the evening feeling even stronger about wanting kids than when we went in. Then today at my church's potluck dinner, that same little girl, who normally seems a bit standoffish to adults, in my opinion, came up to me and not only let me hug her, but let me pick her up and hold her for five minutes straight, with her head on my shoulder the whole time. Of course, I ate it up. But it was so cool that she seemed that comfortable with me in that regard. Then there's Abby, one of my favorite people in the universe. Ten years old, I've known her for half her life, and she's had me COMPLETELY wrapped the whole time. Then there's her friend (and now mine) Rachel, and her little brother, both of whom I've grown a lot closer to in recent weeks.
It's not just at church, either (though that's a huge part of it). Various friends of mine have small children, and I can never get enough of them, and they seem to feel the same way. Maybe it's just this whole "I wanna be a dad" thing that's making it SEEM like there are more kids around me than usual -- I dunno. I know we'll have kids someday. All I know for sure is, both me and Liv are getting a bit...impatient waiting for "someday" to get here.
More later, yall...
Liv and I babysat Thursday night after I got off work for this couple at church, and we had an AWESOME time with these two kids -- that three-year-old boy, and his six-year-old sister, who has some special needs. Liv and I both left the evening feeling even stronger about wanting kids than when we went in. Then today at my church's potluck dinner, that same little girl, who normally seems a bit standoffish to adults, in my opinion, came up to me and not only let me hug her, but let me pick her up and hold her for five minutes straight, with her head on my shoulder the whole time. Of course, I ate it up. But it was so cool that she seemed that comfortable with me in that regard. Then there's Abby, one of my favorite people in the universe. Ten years old, I've known her for half her life, and she's had me COMPLETELY wrapped the whole time. Then there's her friend (and now mine) Rachel, and her little brother, both of whom I've grown a lot closer to in recent weeks.
It's not just at church, either (though that's a huge part of it). Various friends of mine have small children, and I can never get enough of them, and they seem to feel the same way. Maybe it's just this whole "I wanna be a dad" thing that's making it SEEM like there are more kids around me than usual -- I dunno. I know we'll have kids someday. All I know for sure is, both me and Liv are getting a bit...impatient waiting for "someday" to get here.
More later, yall...