Pine-sol and bomb-pops

I love summer. I vividly remember sun suits, jelly shoes and bomb-pops purchased from the ice cream man. I remember hot fourth of July days with hot dogs and fireworks afterwards. I remember my dad showing me just how to toss the ping pong ball in to win the goldfish, and my mom probably rolling her eyes at him. I remember all of these things, and tons more from my childhood. The other day, I was mopping around a sleeping Gideon. He'd crashed out in his swing so I took the opportunity to Pine-sol it up and get to mopping. It was one of those crisp days we've had recently. I opened the windows, hummed a quiet tune and started making things clean. And then it hit me. Just as if it was yesterday, the smell of Pine-sol, the crisp air, my mom busy around the house. I remember! Every Saturday morning, the same routine. I stopped for a minute and grinned. Was I making a memory for Gideon? I went to email my mom and thank her for all the memories she's a part of from childhood. I was a lucky girl. I can only hope Gideon has those fond memories one day of his childhood, which will pass much too quickly for my liking, I can already tell. I want to share so much with him! I want to be there when he has his first bomb-pop, hear his stories from the first day of school, push him high up on the swings. Everything my parents did for me. I can't wait to start our own traditions with Gideon, like taking him for a Chinese lunch every year on the last day of school (like my mom always did). Listening to the day's adventures at the dinner table. Helping with math. Ok, maybe that's Noah's department. I can envision decorating the Christmas tree with him and going on walks in the orchard to pick apples. Spotting the spring flowers together as they first start coming up. It is amazing that everything I took for granted as a child has come back to hit me square in the face. Everything I remember, I want for Gideon. And I am so excited for him! He has so much to look forward to. He has everything to look forward to. Everything to him is new and exciting. Fresh and entertaining. We took him to the pet store the other day while we looked at new fish for our aquarium. He was all bright eyes and smiles. What a big, big world this is, and I can tell he's the kind of kid wanting to take it all on. Sometimes it's hard to fathom making it through another day, week, month, but then I think back to my own childhood and it seems like only yesterday. I have no doubt as the time flies by, Gideon will be grown before we know it, and before we're ready. I hope he'll fondly remember me one day when he smells a smell or sees a sight. And I hope we make his world just as cool as my parents made mine.