Times Like These

4. November 2010 by Kelly.

When we were first married, my wife and I really had no idea how good we had it before we had our sons, or maybe, just maybe we had no idea we would have it so good with Kyle & Hunter.

It seems that our biggest joys come from the simplest of things; last night for example, I stopped at the grocery to pick up a few things and I noticed that Toy Story 3 was for sale, so as a treat for my sons, I purchased one.

Upon arriving home I summoned both boys to the kitchen to give them their new movie, they were thrilled beyond words, Kyle was ‘wooo hooing’ and Hunter was at his ‘Chewbacca’ finest and all was right with our world. Later at dinner, Hunter made it known that he wanted his own copy of the movie as his brother was hogging the remote control.

You see, our boys may have more than one disability, but operating anything with a remote control is well within their abilities. They find a particular scene in every one of their favorite movies and watch that scene over and over and over again. Some movies we have 4 and 5 copies of, because they will watch the same movie on every TV in the house at the same time and every once in awhile, they cue up the same movie on different TV’s at the same time so they can watch them in stereo. It’s times like these that I am most grateful that I am witness to ‘times like these’.

I went to the store after dinner and purchased another copy of Toy Story 3, so that my sons could each have their own; Hunter was speechless, which is my sense of humor showing, Hunter is non-verbal; but Hunter was beaming with the kind of joy that brought tears to my eyes and a lump to my throat and warmth to my heart. All this from a movie, who would have ever thought life could ever get any better than this.

When I was a young man, I wanted to be a writer but had no idea ‘why’ or ‘what’ to write about. Now I find myself with a life time of material in the lessons that I learn from my sons; hopefully I have enough ‘time’ to write all about it.

 How are you spending your time?

Thanks for spending time with me!

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