Go Go Go!

Well it's Saturday and I have a few minutes here to write before I have to go to a softball game for my daughter.

My son played his first baseball game of the season and won last night 11-4. They did pretty good. It is so much fun to watch your kids do something they enjoy. It's even better when they are good at it.

Still no AF today I made an appt to consult with a midwife on Monday. Should know by then if I am preggers or not. I feel today like AF is gonna show her ugly head really soon. On top of that, I have a cold. I don't know if it is from being out in the rain last night at my son's game but when I went to bed my throat was all swollen and now I am coughing up stuff...YUCK! Doesn't my body understand that I don't have time to be sick! Usually I don' t get sick but sometimes it starts and I just keep fighting it and usually it works. Maybe once per year I will get sick enough to lay around but no more than that.

My kids stayed at their dads last night and I didn't know what to do with myself. I watched Pay It Forward for the millionth time. Every time I watch that movie it touches me and makes me think how much we can learn from children. There are a lot of good lessons to learn from that movie but this is the one I want to talk about now.

When I look at the way children act and react, it is so innocent. Even when they are being naughty, they have such an honesty about their outlook on life.

For example, yesterday was quite a day, one of my daycare kids took a rock and smashed another one's fingers and sent him off to the e.r. for stitches.... Ya, it was bad. Dealing with the parents of both kids was the worst. But, when my son got home from school I told him what had happened and he started crying. I asked him why he was crying and he said, "It's my fault mom!" I asked him why he felt that way and he said it was because he left the rock outside and if he hadn't, the little boy wouldn't have gotten his fingers smashed.

That makes me think...The sweetness of children. They haven't felt enough hurt in life to be bitter about things that happen. When something like that happens they don't ask, "what did I do to deserve this?" Instead they wonder what they could have done to help it not happen and they just feel genuine sadness and sympathy.

I don't know how many times I have seen something bad happen to someone that probably deserved it and said, "Serves them right" or "that's karma for ya". At what point in life do we go from feeling genuine compassion to being downright unkind and nasty?

Whatever happened to stopping on the side of the road and helping someone with a flat tire or someone that has run out of gas rather than driving by saying, "shoulda gotten gas when the light came on" or "sucks to be you".

Well, gotta go to a game now, I might write more on this later today but my time for blogging is up! LATER!