I am not sure who this was harder on.....

I was brushing my hair tonight after my long hot soak in the tub. My dear son walks in the bathroom and I ask him 'Jacob is this a white hair?' He says in all his 6 year old honesty 'yeah mommy you got a white hair.' I pull it out and whimper to myself 'I am not gonna cry, I am not gonna cry. I made it to 32 years before my first strand of white hair.' It was a long strand of white hair at that.

I look over at my son and he has tears welling in his eyes. I ask him why he is about to cry? He says 'you are old mommy and gonna die soon and you won't be around to see my children with my future wife.' Talk about breaking your heart. I tell him one hair doesn't mean I am going to die, but I am getting older and I will be around a long time to see his children with his future wife. He then tells me Kaity (the girl he has adored since preschool) isn't gonna marry him and he doesn't know who is future wife will be. I told him it is okay if you don't know. You will know when you get older.

He blames my white hair on his sister turning 9 which is near a teenager in his mind so this is all her fault.