Five Things I Wished I Had Known When My Kids Were Little:
1. They were going to turn out to be great and godly adults. We would enjoy a wonderful adult relationship and friendship with them.
2. My boys would grow up to be really good friends. During the days of brotherly competitiveness and sibling rivalry, I wondered if they would even like each other! Turns out, a strong bond of love was being forged that produced a great adult friendship.
3. Forgiveness from my boys would be freely and fully offered when I apologized and asked for forgiveness. Neither ever seemed to hold a grudge for any of my many failures.
4. When the boys were little, I wish I had known how few of the things I obsessed over, would actually end up mattering in the scheme of things.
5. When they were little, I wish I had understood that the best memories made were not my carefully crafted events, but rather the spontaneous moments of family. The boys knew Craig and I were striving to be blameless before them in the Lord, and they admired us for it.
I wish I had known these things when my kids were young.
