Excuse me while I have a Mommy moment.
I took this photo this afternoon on our roof. Yup, I let my youngest child crawl out a bathroom window onto our roof. Do I get bonus points because she asked first? After she asked I was faced with a dilemma, because she asked I should probably say no. If she had just done it I could later get “angry” and chastise her for it once I knew she was okay and didn’t get hurt. If I gave permission and she fell, well now, I’d be in a pickle wouldn’t I? But in reality, the roof has a low pitch, the weather was perfect, she has great coordination and who doesn’t want to climb on a roof when they are 13?
Once she was out there and I had to go supervise, I saw that the light was perfect and she had that glow that kids get when they are doing something that makes their souls sing, I couldn’t not capture it on film SD card. I mean really, she was experiencing one of those moments in youth that come oh so rarely and it gave me great pleasure to be the one to grant her that moment of pure joy. I was blessed to be there to witness and capture it.
She has promised me that if I let her hang out on the porch roof this summer she will read and “do her homework” out there. Beats tanning naked and smoking cigarettes.
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