It’s easy to feel that the repetitive every-day tasks go unappreciated around the household. But one mother recently shared this story on the Facebook page ‘Love What Matters,’ about a remark from her 16-year-old son that made her look at things in a different light.
Read her post below.
“Just about every night I make dinner for myself, Chris and the kids. I’ve always made a great effort to make sure those meals are good and balanced. They are made with love even in my most tired days. As a mom you feel perhaps they don’t mean much or are taken for granted. However, last night Zane finished dinner and before he went upstairs he said, ‘Mom, when I have kids I’m going to make sure we always have dinners like we do!’
That statement in itself was enough. My heart swelled. Then he let me know he had actually written about our dinners (he is a writer) He offered to share what he has written with me sometime. He said, ‘One of the things I wrote is that the meals you cook represent stability in my life.’
I can’t tell you how it feels to have my 16-year-old son tell you that this repetitive, often tiring, monotonous thing I do every night signifies stability in his life. So when you’re cooking dinner and eating with your kids for the 5,000th time and you think no one cares…think again. I believe it means more to them than we know or even more than they say.”
#LoveWhatMatters
Submitted by Holly Nowak
Sometimes, the “little things” leave a major mark.
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