She has two children. At one point, there were four children in her yard. The next time she looked outside, there were eight children.
(I don't refer to them as my golden girls because we're old. It's because we've known each other forever and our friendship is golden.)
I don't know which one of us responded first but I know my fingers were flying across the keyboard and our friend sent the same message:
Enjoy it!
What fun to have a group of young people romping through the snow in your yard!
The Belle's stories about her boys and then her grandchildren still make me smile.
If you do the parenting job well, your children become self-sufficient. They go out into the world and carve their own way. On a snowy day, you might be holding a mug of cocoa and looking at an empty, snow-covered yard ... waiting for children and hoping there will be multitudes.
