Charity Woodrum

And so she asked if he had any students.

And he was like, well, there's this one girl that won't give up.

So let's go with her.

And she worked in the field of galaxy evolution.

And almost every weekend over the summers, I would go up to Pine Mountain Observatory, giving people tours of the night sky with one of the bigger telescopes up there.

And Jason and Woody would camp there.

And before Woody's bedtime, they would be in the dome with me as I was talking about the night sky.

And then they would go sleep in the tent and wait for me to get done, which would be much later, much past Woody's bedtime.

The first year, I would have to go back to breastfeed him quite often.

So I actually would have to shut down the dome and say, I can hear my baby crying in the distance.

He's hungry.

And so I would go feed him and then come back.

In the sleeping bag, just like cozied up?

Yeah.

So this must have been when he was around two years old.

There had been a lot of cloudy nights all in a row.

And we stepped onto the porch one time and it was a clear night sky.

And he looked at me and he said, oh, thank you, mom.

I said, for what?

And he said, for turning the stars on.