Thorne wanted to bring little toys to the beach and I’m all “It’s just a quick trip, do you have to?” “If we lose them in the water, you’re going to cry buckets of tears and I will have to listen to it for like ever and then I will say to myself – I knew we shouldn’t have brought the little toys.”
Then I take a breath and realize it’s my anxiety talking because of other things going on in my day.
He took the toys. He was happy. I was happy seeing him happy. He didn’t lose them in the ocean.
It’s important to take a breath and just let them play. It can be hard to remember to do that when everything is so busy and we are are just trying to get from A to B and back around to C like every day is a race where we are working toward that finish line.
Maybe it’s just me, and that’s ok… but I recognize I need to make an effort to slow down and just let the kids be kids as much as they can because we all know what they are in store for when they grow up….adulthood leaves little time to play.
Let them play. We need to play too.
-M
Relatively Monica 