An overly emotional mom moment

I was watching Biggest Loser tonight and listening to Abby tell her story about the night she lost everything because her husband and two beautiful children were killed in a car crash and I couldn't help but think about how precious life is and how you sometimes have no warning before you lose everything. Then I heard Collin still awake upstairs. I couldn't help it, I went up to hug him and tell him I love him. I tried to dry my tears so he wouldn't see me crying but they fell again as soon as I hugged him. Collin wanted to know why I was crying so I told him I was watching a really sad story on tv. He is so perceptive and smart. He said "Mom, did a baby die? It's ok, you know. If you saw it on tv it wasn't real." If only that were true. I am overly emotional and I didn't mean for him to see me cry but it made me so proud to see how compassionate he was and that he knows tv isn't reality. For as long as I can remember I have always kissed my kids and told them I loved them when I put them in the car or before I send them out the door because you just never know what will happen and if the worst were to happen to me or to them I want that to be the last thing that I said and did. So guys, if you get to read this someday, I love you more than you could ever possibly imagine and I know eventually it won't be cool to let mom kiss you goodbye anymore but indulge me, ok? It's one of those silly Mom things that really matters to me.