You always hear people say that their kids have taught them how to enjoy the world anew, to look at the world differently. Sometimes it is really hard to see things from their angle. Often I know we find ourselves hustling and bustling around, meeting deadlines, bus schedules and homework regimes. It is easy to focus on the demands made on your time, or the upkeep, the mountain of laundry waiting to be sorted and the pee on the carpet from missed toilet time.
BUT, people are right in that kids can be really great opportunities to slow down and enjoy things. For example, yesterday Zeke woke me up at 5:30 to tell me there were rainbows in the sky. It was the sunrise and he held my hand and took me outside to look at the clouds which he articulately described as yellow, pink, blue and red. It was stunning, and something I would have missed entirely otherwise. Now, I will not tell a lie, it is pretty damn hard to have a grateful heart at 5:30am, but I just stopped and enjoyed and wondered. Wondered at the sky and at this amazing little person that was given to me to show it to me. Wondered at how quickly he has learned to tell me about what he sees, and wondered about how amazing it is that he wanted so desperately to share it with me he dragged me out of bed at dawn. *Sigh*
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