thank you

i saw india hicks on the cover of this magazine yesterday and was struck by the title on the left..."mother guilt: why we'll never be good enough."

i got up at 4:00 a.m. this morning to take wil to school for a spring band trip. he had to be there at 5:00 so we left the house at 4:45, ran by kroger to get snacks for the road, then grabbed a biscuit for him. we were doing great on time until we got stopped by a train for 10 minutes. as we sat there patiently waiting, he wolfed down his early breakfast and listened to dave matthews doing a live cover of hey bulldog. i thought this is surreal. i am sitting here on south broad, waiting for a train, listening to this song with my 15 year old son at 5:00 in the morning. at that moment, between bites, he looked over and said "thank you for getting up so early with me". i wouldn't have missed that moment for the world.

mother guilt is a waste of energy.