All In A Mom’s Day

We really can learn a lot from our children. I know it’s inevitable that they will become affected by the world around them but for now they have such pure hearts and minds (well maybe not when they are lying on the floor throwing a huge temper tantrum in the middle of a public place . . . but that’s a whole other subject). We were at a party the other day and my kids didn’t know everyone there. Later, when my 2 ½ year old daughter was telling a story about the party she was talking about a little boy she didn’t know so she just called him “the green guy.” Life is so simplistic and non-judgemental when you’re that age. Nothing about skin or hair or the way a person looks – just the color of the clothes they are wearing. My older daughter did this same thing when she was younger. We went to the beach for a long weekend with some friends. She couldn’t remember two of the guys names so for the entire weekend they were known by the color shirt they were wearing when she first met them. It works for them and it gave us a good laugh for the entire weekend. Now if we could only come up with a way for them to continue this type of thinking forever.

I started writing this post a few days ago but got distracted (the story of my life) so now it’s almost the weekend again. Just a quick update on our Golden Retriever. He is doing better. We opted against the surgery they were recommending because they couldn’t give us a lot of answers and let us know the surgery was just exploratory because they didn’t know what they would find. They got the biopsy results back and don’t think it’s cancer but they are not 100% sure. Right now they think the masses might be from a perforated ulcer. Our dog is 11 ½ years old and we just decided that surgery was not the best route. He’s on medication and is almost back to 100% of the way he was before he got sick. We’ll just have to wait and see how he does over the next few weeks.

I hope you have a good weekend!!