Raising a large family on a tight budget isn’t always easy. Whenever a child asks for money, I mentally multiply the amount by the number of kids that are with me at the time, since realistically that’s the amount I would have to dole out.
I say no an awful lot.
My heart wants to say yes, but my reality demands another answer. Sometimes it slips out almost without thinking.
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I am a struggling single mom with two boys. They are thrilled if the three of us go on a walk. I call it a bike walk because I walk, they bike. I have a friend giving me her bike this next week so then it will officially be a bike ride! Sometimes we’ll play a board game. Or if I SIT and watch a show or movie with them. I think that deep down, what they really want more than things is relationship too. That is a God given, deep longing in all of us. So when I can’t give them monetary things, I make an extra effort to give them me. A fully present, in the moment, me. THAT will be what the remember 20 years from now, not the latest Pokemon cards they bought.
Angie, I think you’re totally right: it’s our time they need/want more than anything.