07-07-07

That seems monumental, and not just in the "let's go buy a lottery ticket" way. 07-07-07


Quote me, per Martha C.'s blog challenge -
"Free your mind, your ass will follow" - Apocolypse now (movie). Oh, there are so many great ones out there that I've never been able to stick to one. However, this movie quote, is just about as good as it gets, so - there it is. What's the long one, god grant me the wisdom to change what I can and cope with what I can't, and the ability to know the difference? That one doesn't have a bad word in it; but, who originally said it? It's been adopted by many an organization.

Caitlins first swim meet. Should I blog about it, should I not?
She didn't have a good time. By now she has probably swum a few hundred laps during swim practice; but the pool was different, and the lane was different, and she barely made it across. (She kept stopping to grab the rope, and was crying, and it wasn't the positive experience it was supposed to be.) I was thinking that we should have taken more baby steps to get her over this hump, and it occured to me that I thought she was. Over the hump. Done with humps in general But she's not. And there will be many more humps to come. Maybe more for her than for the average kiddo. So it's ok to be my nervous nelly mom over it, because I could have quite easily sent her with a friend - not realizing that this was too much for her for some unseen - by everyone else including me - reason. Luckily, she has a good attitude about it, and we are going to go practice all the parts that she found scary. And hopefully I can convince her that she swims! This is that part, where I worry about changing schools. I know she needs more baby steps than most, - all kids have different humps - I know, I know.
NOW in honor of my - back/white, positive thinking is everything, believe whole heartedly in the theory of attraction - visiting friend Chelsea; we are off to concur the pool. Soon we will return victorious, and I can find something else to worry about. =?