Last Post of 2015

This year has been the year I have posted more moments than any other year in my short history as a blogger. I remember expressing a concern to my friend KPF a couple of years ago; I was worried I wasn't writing as much as I should. KPF, in his calm way, reminded me that quantity shouldn't matter so much to me! Looking back, he is so right. I don't even know why I posted some moments?! They are so badly written. Lessons learned. I actually have 4 moments in various stages of completion that will never see the light of my blog. I don't want the boys to think "Wow! Did our Momley love to blah blah blah!!"

However, here is a moment I want to share and thank Sir B, honourary Uncle to the boys, for making it happen‎.

November 4^th, 2015 was “Take Our Kids to Work” day. It is a day created for Grade 9 students to spend a day with a parent or a relative or anyone with a career. It is an opportunity to get out of their classrooms, observe a person in a work environment and perhaps start planning their own careers or at least start thinking in that direction. ASid was super happy to get a day off from school. He decided that his Dad’s career is not very interesting as it mostly involves sitting at a desk in front of a computer. ASid instead chose to spend the day at home with his Momley. How clever, but no one was endorsing it! He then decided to spend the day with my brother who could be traveling outside of the country for his work around that time! ASid felt that it would be cool to get out of school for a couple of weeks and travel with his uncle and learn all about his work. Obviously, that was out of question. We didn’t want to impose, but we turned to Sir B to help us out.

Sir B studied Engineering in a 5 year program at University of Toronto. He also got a great job after graduating from the program. He gave all that up to pursue his passion of making movies. I may not be capturing his sentiments as well as I should be, but one can understand what it takes to embark on a road less travelled. Sir B was definitely the best possible choice for ASid to spend a day with. ASid spent an exciting day and for the first time in his life, he fell asleep on the TTC on the way back.

It is very tough for a Grade 9 student to think about a career. But it is awesome when they have supportive adults in their lives that they can talk with and learn from. I do believe ASid and Hans are surrounded by many wonderful people, and I hope they are able to make the best choices in their lives. If not, that’s OK. They can always make other choices that best suit their dreams and passions.

…as one "Mother" from a much beloved movie sang...climb every mountain! And Momley would like to add a simple oft repeated phrase to it, NEVER GIVE UP!