Six flags, growing, and learning to let go (a little)….
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Six Flags, growing, and letting go bit by bit….
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Life
We went to Six Flags over Texas yesterday as a grandparent’s gift to Mat and Abbey for their respective birthdays this month and next. -sigh- They have grown and changed so much this year and it was EXTREMELY apparent yesterday. Mat rode “The TITAN” with Daddy. I told my mother-in-law what a bad idea I thought it was to let him attempt it. I said, “He’s not a teen. He’s just a boy.” I prayed and thought and waited. Mat marched up there, took a look, swallowed deeply, looked at daddy and took his hand and on he went. He loved it. I almost cried. Diallo beamed like a Massachusetts light house on full blast at midnight. He sailed on air down the stairs. His brother - 29 years old- wouldn’t ride it, but HIS SON at almost 9 rode like a champ. What a daddy moment. I am learning the power of a father’s love and for my heart as I let go more and more for those moements “my Father’s love” that holds together my heart. Mat wanted to tackle the Batman and Mr. Freeze and the Flashback. I said one giant leap at a time thanks! Diallo said he couldn’t do those with Mat either. His heart couldn’t take any more! Thank goodness the love and letting go and loss hits us together! We can hold one another up! Mat doesn’t realize it totally yet, but we are all (and especially Mat ) lucky to have Diallo. He let’s Mat be a man in increments and expects great things of him. Mat lives up to what you expect. I am very grateful for my husband.
Abbey rode a “grown up bob sled” with me that was a minicoaster and the parachutes with her uncle. She tackled every water ride and a few others I couldn’t do! Again, I didn’t think that the parachute was wise. Diallo really freaked out a bit about it after all she’s HIS baby girl. She starts and stops his world. Abbey just jumped up and did it. -sigh- As a parent no lesson is harder for me than the open handed method of loving. I don’t know how the Father does it! It’s beautiful and tough.
Filed under: kids on July 24th, 2008
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