Life Lessons

The one thing in motherhood that you do a lot is explain things. Kids always want to know about everything. They constantly have questions. Most of the time, silly questions. Brudder and I had a conversation that kind of hit my heart. Normally when I pick Brudder up from school, I get the normal stuff about his day. We did reading and math and p.e. He recently told me a different story.

Me: How was school today?

Brudder: Good.

Me: What did you do.

Brudder: We were at P.E. and this girl said she was thankful to be alive because she has a new heart.

Me: Oh really, that's really cool.

Brudder: What does she mean she has a new heart?

Me: Well sometimes people are born and their heart doesn't work right. Or sometime during their life something happens and their heart kind of breaks down and they need a new one.

Brudder: Well, where did she get it and how did they put it in her body?

Me: It's called a heart transplant. If your heart goes bad and you need a new one, you get put on a waiting list for a new one.

Brudder: Where do they get it.

Me: When people pass away they are sometimes organ donors. Once their body dies they take their parts that are still good and give them to people that need them.

Brudder: Did Papa II give his heart away?

Me: No. He wasn't an organ donor. Plus his heart was too sick to give to anyone.

Brudder: Well where are his parts.

Me: In his body still.

Brudder: How do they take the hearts from the ground after they are buried.

Me: They don't. When someone passes away and they are donors, they keep them on machines to keep their body full of oxygen so that they can take the parts they need.

Brudder: Oh.

And that was pretty much it. I always try to keep conversations true but kid friendly. It was really cool to me that he got to come in contact with a little girl that has experienced having a heart transplant. It gave me an opportunity as well to explain to him how he should be thankful for being healthy and being blessed with a body that works the way that it should. I strive to keep my kids from being selfish and overindulged. I want to keep them innocent but at the same time, I want them to know that we all have blessings in our life every single day.