Park Modifications

While I have been getting larger, we have been trying to maintain some sense of normalcy for Miss E. It is getting much harder for me to do the "normal" things that I used to be able to do as I am slower, un-coordinated, can't lift/bend/climb, and need to rest frequently.

When my dear asks to go to the park, it is with some specific conditions that I respond "yes, we can go to the park." #1: I can't push you on the swing and #2: I will have to sit on the bench and watch you while you play.

While I sit on the bench, watching her play and run by her lonesome, I try not to get too judgmental about how sedentary and disengaged I must look to others around me.

Who needs me to push her on the swing?  She can just push her special friend "Ba-nessa" (aka "Vanessa") on the swing.

Who needs to be able to bend over and help her play in the sand and find "treasures"?  She can find rocks on her own.

What a good girl I have!

It's probably more important that I took/take her to the park and humor her and give her hugs than to be able to climb, and push, and dig side by side with her right now.  She is alright.  I am alright.  And, having a big, firm, cumbersome belly right now is not a permanent state of being.

Here's to still being able to make it to the park.  Happy weekend!