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Kimberly Williams-Paisley is looking back at a sweet memory as she drops her son off at college.
The Father of the Bride actress, 53, shared a snap of an adorable note her son William ‘Huck’, 18, wrote her 10 years ago on Instagram, where the then 7-year-old asked her to visit him in college — or “calij” as his younger self wrote. Her son ended the note asking her if she promises, which he misspelled as “promes,” to visit him, and as Williams-Paisley drops him off at college for his first semester, she’s finally giving her response.
“I promes I promes I promes ❤️💪🏻😭 #calij #collegedropoff #hewroteitwhenhewas7 #stillcounts” she captioned the snap.
In addition to Huck, the Dog Gone actress shares son Jasper Warren, 16, with her husband Brad Paisley. In March 2021, Paisley told PEOPLE that he credits his wife for being an amazing mother and keeping their “house afloat.”
“You keep our house afloat — seeing you give birth to two kids and raise a third is amazing,” he said to her during the interview, jokingly counting himself as a third child alongside his boys. “And you try to do the right thing all the time.”
After Williams-Paisley was unable to speak for nearly two years while suffering from a partially paralyzed vocal cord, she told PEOPLE in December 2024 that her boys made her feel “less alone.”
“My kids were great cheerleaders for me,” she said. “At an event, they knew if someone I wanted to talk to was walking away and I couldn’t get them, and they’d get them for me. They’re used to assisting me, which is really sweet.”
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Both Williams-Paisley and Paisley love their children. For the “Whiskey Lullaby” singer, fatherhood changed “everything” for him. Two years after welcoming his second son, he told The Boot how much becoming a parent impacted him.
“It changes your sleep patterns, most of all,” he shared. “It changes your beliefs in almost [everything]; it just shakes you to your core. One of my favorite sayings that I’ve heard somewhere is: ‘It’s to have your heart go walking around without you.'”
“It really is that way, so you feel things deeper,” he added. “I’m no longer concerned about my safety; I’m concerned for two other human beings’ safety, and it makes you that much deeper as a human being.”
