Here's a few photos of Shayla from this afternoon at Bouldin Creek and a couple from the house earlier today... She's relatively still in these...
Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
It's touch and go when you try to lend a hand to your little one Who Wants to do Everything themselves. Add to that the fact that they want to Help You do everything that you Do. So it's a 'Hands-on- Doubletime' kind of operation, And there are very definite Rules of Protocol as far as The Child is concerned, in particular.
The parental rules are, of course concerned with the child's safety and the child's rules are governed by, "I try it? My do it!" As a parent you try very carefully not to step on their prescious and oh so delicate egos, yet time interferes with this MO at times, as well as their lack of understanding.
I must say once again how awed I am at the whole activity of parenting and how it is such a mirror image, a double image pracitcally, for my own learning about myself and my process of growth. It is really all so rudimentary---the way we are made. We are so much the same it is a wonder that we fool ourselves so often by thinking we are different than one another. That's really so immature and foolhardy. Parenting is one of the things in Life that really seems to bear this out in stark, boldfaced obviousness. It's surprising that we still find a way to deny it. It's a good thing that denial doesn't change the truth or we probably wouldn't have too many of those. :) Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
The parental rules are, of course concerned with the child's safety and the child's rules are governed by, "I try it? My do it!" As a parent you try very carefully not to step on their prescious and oh so delicate egos, yet time interferes with this MO at times, as well as their lack of understanding.
I must say once again how awed I am at the whole activity of parenting and how it is such a mirror image, a double image pracitcally, for my own learning about myself and my process of growth. It is really all so rudimentary---the way we are made. We are so much the same it is a wonder that we fool ourselves so often by thinking we are different than one another. That's really so immature and foolhardy. Parenting is one of the things in Life that really seems to bear this out in stark, boldfaced obviousness. It's surprising that we still find a way to deny it. It's a good thing that denial doesn't change the truth or we probably wouldn't have too many of those. :) Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
This was Shayla's first full weekend away from home--a whole two nights away!! A day, night, and a day is not so bad, but the stress of thinking about two nights, two partial days with a full day in the middle!! Man what a mental trip that is!
I nearly called the whole thing off Friday morning, but then came back to my senses. Thankgoodness! She only went to Houston to visit Grandma Nana and Risa! By my trepidation you'd have thought she was going across the country.
I'm really glad I let her do it. I hope I'm not saying that a little too prematurely. Who knows what kind of habits she'll have developed over there. Just kidding. Haha. Nana and Risa are great.
I did discover that I still do really enjoy silence quite a bit. How nice that is IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY SPANNING HOURS AT A TIME!! Holy Toledo Batman! (Parental-style cursing that was learned with great effort, fyi.) Boy, that was Nice! I could get used to a dose of that from time to time. Look out Relatives, Rent-A-Kid is now open!
It will be really good to have her back in a few hours from now. Parental free time sure is nice, but I started missing her just as soon as I handed her off. Isn't that interesting? I guess that is the way it is.
Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.
I nearly called the whole thing off Friday morning, but then came back to my senses. Thankgoodness! She only went to Houston to visit Grandma Nana and Risa! By my trepidation you'd have thought she was going across the country.
I'm really glad I let her do it. I hope I'm not saying that a little too prematurely. Who knows what kind of habits she'll have developed over there. Just kidding. Haha. Nana and Risa are great.
I did discover that I still do really enjoy silence quite a bit. How nice that is IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY SPANNING HOURS AT A TIME!! Holy Toledo Batman! (Parental-style cursing that was learned with great effort, fyi.) Boy, that was Nice! I could get used to a dose of that from time to time. Look out Relatives, Rent-A-Kid is now open!
It will be really good to have her back in a few hours from now. Parental free time sure is nice, but I started missing her just as soon as I handed her off. Isn't that interesting? I guess that is the way it is.
Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.