Onwards and Upwards No. 13
Hello my healing team,
I hope this update finds you well.
Well it is Friday 13th and superstition says that today is supposedly an unlucky day. Well I say fooee to that. Every day is a good day.
Today I was woken by my kids jumping on us for a wrestle and a cuddle. We got up as a family, had breakfast together, got ready for school, then walked our kids to school with our dog Ollie. Sarah and I stood at the top of the school drive as Georgia skipped off to her class singing some Taylor Swift song to herself (with all the wrong words), and Riley dashing to catch up with one of his buddies, eager to join their game of four square.
With the kids happily dispatched, Sarah and I took Ollie for his first walk down to the beach. He ran onto the sand, a little cautious at first, with every piece of stringy seaweed clinging to his auburn fur coat. He then ran to the waters edge, sniffed at the first wave to roll in, then jumped at it hoping he could run across the water like David Blaine doing his latest magic trick, or Jesus walking across the Sea of Galilee (not that I’m religious but apparently there are also Islam accounts of Jesus walking on water so it may have happened). Not for my dog though!! Ollie got his first shock as he fell into the wave, then his second as he took a mouthful of water only to find it was salty.
So far this afternoon, Sarah and I have had a relaxing afternoon. For some reason…….. I have felt particularly tired this week. It has been busy at work and busy at home. It is a little after 2pm. I just made bruschetta for lunch with some vegie juice on the side. I am resting now knowing that in about one hour I will rush off to get the kids from school. I will question them about their day opening with “how was your day today guys”, only to get the standard response from both Riley and Georgia in unison, “good”. Then I will ask “what did you learn in class”, only to get the standard response, again in unison “nothing”. As always, I will wait until dinner time when I have them captive at the dinner table to probe a little deeper, to find out a little more about that mysterious life of my littluns.
So as I sit here, I look at the bright blue skies and think, today is a good day. Actually, every day is a good day, especially when you wake up, and later go to sleep, with your family around you.
Take care
Geoff
