"Good Luck"

I love singing to my kids.
I'm not good at it, but I love doing it.

One by one, my children seem to figure out that I'm not good at it.  I still remember when Shayne first begged, "Mommy, don't sing."

I was putting Elijah to bed tonight and the plan was to sing him to sleep.  Nothin' new, Rex and I've been doing this for like, ever. 

I prayed with him, and got through 3 verses of this little light of mine without incident.

Then I started into Amazing Grace. 
I  just love that song so it's not unusual for it to make it into the list on any given night.

I was belting it out as if God was standing right in front of me (I think that's how we're supposed sing)

anyway,

I got through the first verse and I thought I was doing pretty good until just before "twas grace, my fears, re-lieved"

when my sweet, darling, innocent, musically inclined smart-as-a-tack child interrupted me and said.....

"Mommy, when you missed that part did it hurt your throat?"

now there was a split second when I decided whether or not to get my feathers ruffled

nooooo, did it sound like it hurt my throat?

"yes"

Then I went there.
Oh, yes I did.
I asked the question.

Does it sound bad?

"weeeel I wouldn't say it's bad, and I wouldn't say it's not good, I'd just say...

.....good luck"

crickets.

now there was a split second when I decided whether or not to get my feathers ruffled

crickets.

"Mommy"
yes

"Did that hurt your feelings?"

now there was a split second for me to decide how not to ruffle his feathers

Noooo, not really.  Well, kind of. 

He started to get upset "I'm sorry"

Confession time.

-oh, no honey, it's okay. 

I know I'm not a very good singer and sometimes I don't even sing it right, but I like singing to you guys, so I keep trying. Since I know I'm not good at it and you're saying what's true and not just being mean my feelings aren't really hurt. 

Then I went there.
Oh, yes I did.
I asked the question.

Do you want me to sing some more?

"No thank you"

-such good manners makes a Momma proud.

It looks like another one got wise to me.  At least Isaiah hasn't figured it out yet.

If you're not familiar with this song, it is too beautiful to keep to myself.  Since there ain't enough good luck for me to ever sing it on the world wide web, I'll just share the words.  

One day I'm going to belt it out - in heaven- and God will be standing in front of me. I'll be singing  with thousands of others and not one soul will ask me if it hurts my throat. :)

Happy Thursday y'all.