What a beautiful zoo day! I said yes to the zoo and yes to the carousel today.
I am realizing sometimes I tend to only do things if kids "deserve" it or they earned it. I hate that i realized that...If that is true, we wouldn't ever do anything I promise. I am trying to learn about grace, and to stop withholding things from my kids based on xyz...That is separate from discipline.
So we went just because, not for reward but for enjoyment and also because we've been couped up after hazels surgery.
I am realizing sometimes I tend to only do things if kids "deserve" it or they earned it. I hate that i realized that...If that is true, we wouldn't ever do anything I promise. I am trying to learn about grace, and to stop withholding things from my kids based on xyz...That is separate from discipline.
So we went just because, not for reward but for enjoyment and also because we've been couped up after hazels surgery.
I ran into a sweet friend that told me she admired that I could manage taking all of my kids to the zoo, and shared that it was often hard to go to the zoo...me too i thought!
In fact, the day I saw her was the first day ever I have been able to not feel stressed taking the kids on my own.
If you live in fort Wayne than you probably have had stressful or embarrassing moments you can think of at the zoo...
i know one year I lost Lennox..like for a while and one time Levi was just getting to know his wheelchair and totally crashed into a little 2 yr old at the bottom if a hill. It was so awful and the dad was mad at me...these are two main stories..but also so cool to reflect over the years how we have progressed as a family...
If you live in fort Wayne than you probably have had stressful or embarrassing moments you can think of at the zoo...
i know one year I lost Lennox..like for a while and one time Levi was just getting to know his wheelchair and totally crashed into a little 2 yr old at the bottom if a hill. It was so awful and the dad was mad at me...these are two main stories..but also so cool to reflect over the years how we have progressed as a family...
I have had many different strollers,walkers, wheelchairs I can think of,and strangers who've helped us and even a child in a harness at one point lol.
I was thinking did we all finally figure out how to do this? Or did I relax a little bit? Probably both! I was thinking about how I was so afraid of my kids getting kidnapped or lost that I would keep them so close and scold them for just the littlest bit of freedom. Now they're old enough we have established rules like where to go if we get lost And we ask everybody "is everyone ready?" before we head to the next exhibit.
We would have missed out on so much if it was something we would have said it was too hard to do in the years past and what a great place to learn along with other moms trying to do the same thing!
We would have missed out on so much if it was something we would have said it was too hard to do in the years past and what a great place to learn along with other moms trying to do the same thing!
You never know what others have gone through to get where they are Hallelujah and high fives ✋
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