Skip to main content

People watching

This past weekend I took my younger son on a Mama-son special weekend away. We were at a water park and while he was playing around I did my favourite thing to do - people watch. It reminded me that there are all kinds of people in this world.

I saw a family with a clearly autistic son and another family with a child with Down's Syndrome and they were all playing and happy. I saw a dad several times over the weekend and each time he was on his phone conducting business, even while his family was around him. Phone to his ear, arms gesticulating, as if the world depended on the deal he was working.

I marveled at a family with a fairly young mom, with 4 kids ranging from teenager to toddler - and was amazed at her stamina and relative composure.

I saw families lining up for s'mores, with small children holding mini pitchforks with marshmallows on the tips, moving towards the open fire pit and then waving their pitchforks away once the marshmallows were toasted. High-risk manoeuvres and an accident waiting to happen if ever I saw one!

I saw mom reading her kindle while her son was jumping in and out of the water, throwing a rock or sometimes a golf ball and then reaching to get it.

And then I saw my little one - spinning around and kicking at the water sprays like he was possessed - without a care in the world. Here he is,  just hanging around enjoying life.



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What is your 'bread & butter' conversation?

I am anxious to get back to the playgroups with my Moms group, and talk with some of the other moms because I want to know what they talk to their husbands about at the end of the day. If I were to truly tell my husband what goes on with my day? Well, the conversation would be inane and irrelevant. Gunnar: "How was your day honey?" Big smile. Me: "You know the usual. Lucas got up late this morning and was crabby because he didn't have enough time to play before breakfast and Liam pulled off my tiny earring, you know, the one I was so excited about getting because I thought he wouldn't notice it, and I could wear earrings again? Anyways, he pulled it off, and I grabbed it from him and set it down so I could deal with him appropriately, and I forgot about it, but when I went back to look for it I couldn't find it. It might have gotten wiped off the table when I was cleaning, so I spent part of the day sifting through the garbage looking for it, then I looked ...
3 comments
Read more

Week 4 - Part 1, Fredericksburg

And here are my pictures from Fredericksburg! A bit different than you may have expected. We walked around the National Museum of the Pacific, but hardly had the chance to look in much detail (antsy 3-year old took care of that).   My husband's conclusion was while there may be some things that are German (like on the menu), some are definitely not.  But perhaps they were when the Fredericksburg immigrants moved there?  Immigrants do cling to what they know and bring those with them, while their home country evolves. Anyways, we had fun walking around and relaxing.  My dad didn't get a chance to do too much (G and I took the time to run away and put my cousin in charge of the boys and my dad).  So we had a break.  We had plans to do more sight-seeing on our way back, but we (me and G) were too tired to try. Tuesday 28th June : Cycle 2.  After checking my blood counts, I was able to get cycle 2 - Yaay!  My appointment was 9:30 am, and I ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Summer vacation so far

2-yr old: "Waaah..!" wail, bawl. 7-yr old: "I'm sorry..I didn't mean to hurt you." 5 minutes later. 2-yr old: "Waaah..!" wail, bawl. 7-yr old: "I'm sorry..are you ok?" Loop again 10 more times today. The boys walking hand-in-hand up the stairs. 2-yr old: "My water." 7-yr old: "No, my water." 2-yr old: "No! Mine!" 7-yr old: "No! My water!" And so on for another 5 minutes. 7-yr old: "Get off me! Get off me!" Various noises, "....Ow, Ow, Ow!" 7-yr old: "Waaah..!" wail, bawl. Mama needs to sign up big brother for more full-time summer camps. Hosted Mom's club ice-cream bash at our house. In the backyard. 28 moms with at least 1 child each. You do the Math. Yikes! Papa getting a big squeeze hug from 2-year old. 7-yr old getting a big, smoochy kiss goodnight from baby brother. Splashing in the pool with the boys. Priceless.
Post a Comment
Read more