It's Saturday Morning 6:52am, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

I thought my answer was YES! But this morning, I learned otherwise. You see, I was having a peaceful slumber...visiting dreamland when I heard a BANG! BANG! BANG!on my bedroom door. It was followed quickly by the burst of air as the door opened and DS 4 shouting excitedly, "MOM, I caught a FISH!"

Now, if you are not a regular blog reader of mine, you probably don't know that I am NOT an early riser. And I am not a "quick riser" either...I have to get my bearings...you know, kind of EASE into the day. Thank goodness, DH balances me out in this department. He does hop out of bed pretty quick in the mornings.

But, upon hearing the BANG and the announcement, neither of us moved too quick this morning. DH said, "Do you need help getting it off the line?" To which DS 4 replied, "Yes." And he was gone, back out to the pond.

It has taken me longer to type this than the exchange actually took. I
looked at the clock when he entered at 6:52am and it was still 6:52 when he was
back out the door and outside.

By 6:53am reality hit me and I thought, "SURELY he is NOT outside fishing at this hour?" But as DH went outside to help take the fish off the line, I knew it was true. This thought was followed by, "What horrible parents we are not knowing that our youngest son is outside the house!" DH came back inside and told me that DS 4 announced, "This is a REALLY good time to fish, Dad!"

Most reasonable families probably DID know where their children were at that hour on a Saturday morning. And I suspect, most 8-year-olds were IN BED where they belonged. I haven't even asked DS 4 what posessed him to get up and go fishing...but then I am not sure that's a question that you ask someone who really considers himself a "Fisherman". (By the way, I DID know where all THREE of my Teens were...and they WERE where they were supposed to be!!)

DS 4 has been fishing pretty much all morning. He's caught (and released) two fish as I type this. I'm glad he's figured out what time it's best to fish...because two years ago he figured out what time NOT to fish

To figure out the mystery of WHY someone would WANT to get out of a perfectly comfy bed and sit on the bank of a pond, I went to Google and looked up fishing quotes...here are two that I think pretty much sum up DS 4's fishing drive:

Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan

And so I find myself now saying...

Hope on, son, hope on!!