service

B2 Has been away at Easterfest in Toowoomba he came home early in the year with an expression of interest form...I told him if he didn't want to do it then don't fill in the form!!! What would I know? he came home a few weeks later with the permission slip and a request for $50 to attend.

I get the whole need to serve thing it is my life vocation BUT B2 was born on Pancake Day, Christened on Easter Sunday with the brand new Holy Water and everything, something in my heart just said no!!! still I bought a new bag and blow up mattress for him and stocked his bag full of treats....

Each minute he was away was awful....I worried because I realised he didn't take a towel, or shampoo (this from a boy that takes two showers a day and has a hair cut every 4 weeks).

I checked my phone every 5 minutes waiting for a  text, when his GF put on FB I miss you I wrote I did too, a message came about a flat phone being charged and he misses her too...not me...!!!!!

Easter Sunday I went into his bedroom and slept for a few hours....I really missed him it was a special day in so many ways (others don't connect those dots but I do)

we headed to my mum and dad's for lunch and a working bee....the first thing Granny said was ''where is B2, he is the best worker?'' It was only then I stopped and thought, he is giving service to others, no he wont like it but there are many, many things in life we do that help another for no reward....I said '' he is giving service at Easterfest, B2 GIVING to others''.... and it was only then I stopped looking for the text..I knew he was fine, warmish, and so was I......

he wouldn't let me hug him at school but I did get one just before he jumped in the drivers seat (only a little bribe) he is happy, brown and is sleeping like a log.....

He did have a ball, he wants to go back next year not to serve but to be part of the crowd.....maybe, maybe NOT