Created: 10/08/2009 9:42 AM KSTP.com | Print |  Email By: Vineeta Sawkar

SAWKAR: Those Little Moments

Every now and then, I get a little sappy on this blog and I hope you will indulge me once again. This week has been absolutely crazy. It has been a sports fan's dream. It has been a morning anchor's nightmare. I stayed up late to watch the Vikes and I went to the overtime Wild home opener. These are tough things to do when you wake-up at 3:30 in the morning. Nevertheless, I didn't want my sleepiness to take away from my commitments. I still volunteered in my kids' classes this week.

I truly enjoy spending an hour and a half every week in a first grade classroom and then in a fourth grade classroom. It may just be making copies for the teacher or working with kids on reading, but it makes me feel good and makes me understand what goes on in my kids' classes much better.

I worry that there will be a day when my kids will be embarrassed to see me walk into their classrooms. My first grade daughter still delights in seeing me but I always wonder when my fourth grade son will cross the threshold into that next phase of being a kid. You know...that phase when some kids start thinking their parents aren't very cool.

This week, though, I walked into that fourth grade classroom and I found a big hug waiting for me. My little guy didn't have any qualms about getting up from his desk and saying, "Hi Mom" with such enthusiasm it almost made me tear up. He gave me a big hug and went back to his desk.

I know. It is such a little thing and probably not even worth mentioning but to this mom it is one more day that my 9-year old still thinks his mom is cool. That means the world to me. I know things could change at anytime but for now, I will ride this wave of always seeing a smile on my kids' faces when they see me. These are fleeting moments a mom treasures and who knows? Maybe my kids will never lose that. A mom can hope!