Hung out with some of my favorite people tonight...a family I have babysat for ten years. They always remind me of some of my greatest "Walk Into Walls" moments of all time.
Working with young adults and children under the age of 18 year round is bound to teach you an immeasurable amount of patience in all situations. Likewise, you also learn that "expect the unexpectable" HAS to be your motto each and every day or you should surrender your badge of authority immediately. On the other hand, there is BOUND to be those moments where being awarded 3 lifelines to tap into for support would be the greatest gift imaginable.
I will never forget the summer that I was at the pool and had finally established my place as a regular amongst all the "Pool Moms," even though I was merely the summer nanny and not the "real thing" like they were. My sweet little social butterfly that I was caring for decided to come and curl up next to me on my lawn chair. Touched by his affection and, in all honesty, feeling a slight sense of pride at his display of approval for his babysitter, I turned the focus of the "Mommy Chat" to him. Expecting a few words of adoration or a loving exchange he looks at me, places one little hand on either side of my thigh and then looks up at our little gathering of women and says, "Kristin, why do your legs jiggle like this?" and proceeds to demonstrate that lovely act of my fleshing jiggling out of control as if it was a little critter of its own. "Go play," is all I could muster up before thinking "Ok God, you humbled me yet again."
The applicable lesson I took with me that day...never let ANYONE sit on my lawnchair again...unless my lower extremidies were appropriately covered with a beach towel :)
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