Nikki's Journal Entry

Wanted to share this one...
“Snow”

I was unloading some bags from out of our car from my weekly trip from Target and my son walked outside onto the driveway. I kept an eye on him while he was looking around and walked a couple of feet onto the driveway. He was “talking” in his typical gibberish to himself and to me I suppose while pointing to something in the sky. I tried to see what he was pointing to and tried to understand what he was saying, but there really aren’t many true words that he uses, so I just smiled and said “yes” to him. I was finally able to let him walk around outside after the cold spell we have been enduring lately and it was nice to get some fresh air for a change.

I was telling my son to walk in the snow and look at all of the white snow around him. He glanced out around him and was looking at the sky. He also enjoyed pressing his feet into the snow and noticed that his shoes left shoeprints in the snow. I did the same and lined up my shoeprints next to his and talked about the sizes of our feet. Whether or not he listened and understood, who knows, but he again was speaking in his gibberish. He started to walk towards a bank of snow and touched the snow and pulled his arm back quickly. I remarked how cold it was and he just looked at me.

This little moment was sweet and I thought to myself how we take things for granted such as snow and our senses. How wonderful it is that we can taste, see, touch and feel-let alone appreciate our senses and appreciate them with snow! I also was glad that we could be outside and I realized how thankful I was that we didn’t have to be indoors anymore. To see snow through a child’s eye must be wonderful and to think how as adults we complain about driving in it and shoveling it!

WOW! What a great entry--yes I totally agree with you--the beauty of parenthood--to see life through the eyes of children. We wake up and see that it is raining and respond with aghhhh "My hair will be messed up (not that I have to worry about that anymore) or my shoes are going to get wet!" Kids wake up and see it is raining and say, "yeeeehah I can not wait to get out there and splash in the puddles!!"
Thanks for the great reminder to appreciate the little things and see the choose our attitude!
Dan Slowey