Comments on: Orbits

By: Ginger

Ginger — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:46:49 +0000

I’m like Nan — the youngest of four but the only one that moved away and now the only one that lives in a different state than everyone else! But like WorksforMom said, make sure they read this story. Or better yet, I have a video of my son when he was about six, running through the sprinklers, and pausing just long enough for me to interview him. On the tape (yes, tape) he says, “Mom, you and I are always going to live together, right? Even when I go to college, right?” At the time I laughed and loved it, and of course, knew I’d be a complete failure of a mother if he still felt this way when he was 18. He’s 12 now, and while he asks me questions about how I will be as a grandma to HIS kids, he hasn’t asked me to go to college with him ever again. I’m lucky if he lets me walk near him at the grocery store some days! But I’m sure you will always remember this story … and the time in their lives when your boys wanted to be your neighbors! It’s a lovely story.

By: nan

nan — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:21:09 +0000

Hmm. Well, I was the first of my siblings to move out, and lived hundreds of miles away! Somehow, my family and I have ended up living very near to my Mum and Dad, and my brother and sister laugh at me all the time… They thought I was the LEAST likely to live here! But, it is a great arrangement. We are all happy, and spend plenty of time in each others’ kitchens!

By: Kyla

Kyla — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:21:42 +0000

I don’t think we’ll ever be Pluto. But we sure won’t be the sun anymore.

By: Aliki

Aliki — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:38:26 +0000

My mom is always holding over my head the fact that when I was nine I told her I would never ever leave her.

Sigh.

By: Bon

Bon — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:50:08 +0000

yep, they’ll probably kill themselves laughing about the idea in a few years time. or stay forever in your basement until you’re cracking for them to become independent.

but for the moment, in the now, how sweet they are, how loved and secure and safe in the orbit you’ve nurtured for them.

By: Manic Mommy

Manic Mommy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:49:32 +0000

I think at some point it reverses and they’re the sun and we’re the planets revoling around them.

Somehow I don’t think you’ll end up as Pluto

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:43:02 +0000

This was sweet. Ben and Jack, together forever. My how they will roll with laughter in a few years!

By: susiej

susiej — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:24:32 +0000

He just assumes he will live with his brother — that the way he feels now will be the way he feels forever — and no one will come between them. That’s such a precious part of your story.

By: WorksForMom

WorksForMom — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:03:09 +0000

I’ve just always (ALWAYS) been partial to anything that Ben says.

But the fact that he wants to live with his brother? Perfect. Be sure that he and his brother read this story in 10 years.

By: Mrs. G.

Mrs. G. — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:23:11 +0000

This reminds me of when my son used to tell me I was the only one he wanted to marry. He’s thirteen tomorrow and has his eye on a hole new batch of candidates. I’m old news.

So sweet.