Scout has a way of making me feel like a million bucks.
On Tuesday nights, I am taking a Mandarin class.  I have to leave before the kids are in bed by about an hour.  Before I left this past Tuesday, he said, “Mom, are you going to Chinese today?”  I told him I was.  Then he said, “Mom, I hate when you leave.  It’s never any fun without you.  I am really going to miss you.”
I don’t know that I really buy the whole things, but it did make me feel really good all night.
And then, the next morning, when I heard running feet and a five year old boy cuddle next to me while I was still half sleeping, I really felt good.  Because to solidify what he told me the night before, he said, “Mom, I missed you last night.  But tell me, what did you learn in Chinese?”
And then we conversed in Mandarin for the next 30 minutes.