Anthony: "Mom, am I going to be a dad someday? When I am a dad are you going to be the grandma? Will Alex be the uncle?"
Me: "I hope you are a dad some day because I really want to be a grandma. Yes, Alex will be your children's uncle."
Anthony: "Mom, I am going to miss you when I am a grandpa because you are going to die. Once you die your holy spirit and soul will go to heaven." OK...
Me: "I might be a great-grandma when your a grandpa, you never know."
Anthony: "No, you will be dead but I will come visit you and your shiny grave." I'm thinking I am not quite ready to think about my grave but I just keep driving and biting my lip.
Okay, where do you go with that one? We really have never discussed death in great detail. I asked him where he learned it and he said at St.Joe's which makes sense since it is a Catholic school that they would discuss some of this. Honestly I thought his perspective was pretty mature for being six and mine was pretty immature for being 32. Really not interested in discussing me being dead and living under a shiny rock, but at least I know I will have visitors. :)
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Yikes! Lucy just said to me yesterday " momma someday when I'm a mommy you will be a grandma". I thought it was totally cute and now I'm SO THANKFUL she didn't follow with the whole me being dead under a rock part!
I love these fleeting moments of childhood insightfulness! What a sweet conversation. Anthony was really thinking deeply about this. Ross asked me last week if he would get married when he grew up. I told him yes, I hoped so. He said he wanted to marry Hope. sigh :)
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