Biggest Fear

My biggest fear as a parent is to have my children hurt or to have them taken from me.  We set up precautions from the moment we know of their life.  We eat healthy, take prenatals, avoid all the no-no’s.  Then they’re born and we remember to put them on their back to sleep and to tuck up all dangling cords.  When they discover their mobility we lock cabinets, block stairways and plug up outlets.  We teach them to put on their seatbelt, to avoid ’stranger danger’, to wear a helmet.  They get regular check-ups and immunizations, medicine when they’re ill. 

But what do you do when there’s something you can’t fix?  Something out of your control?  Something that might not even allow you to hold your child for very long?

That story starts here.

Why do I always forget my camera?

Tonight was one of those really fun nights at church.  We had 10 kids ranging from K to 5th grade - which can be a challenge to keep such a wide age range engaged.  I introduced two new songs to them tonight and both of them were huge hits.  It was fun seeing the kids get into the music and dance around and make up their own motions.  

We did some new games too.  In one of the games they were partnered up - one behind the other.  The front person couldn’t use their arms and the person in back was blindfolded and had to be the “arms”.  They fed their partner a Ho-ho and a bottle of Kool-Aid.  There were some good faces and plenty of messes.  Too bad I didn’t have my camera.

It was a fun, high-energy night and I survived!