There are about 5 billion things I could be doing this morning. What am I doing?
Train spotting!
And no, we are not talking about drugs. My oldest, loves trains. Thomas the Train, chuggington and YouTube trains by fellow formers. My husband and I have not hindered this "passion" of my sons. We live near a freight company's yard. There are over 20 trains that go by in a day that we are less than 5 min from the tracks.
This hobby allows me to sit stationary and occupied my big's time. He enjoys watching the train go by and I can always get him into the car with bribes of trains. I fear my youngest is following suit in the train obsession.
As I sit here writing this- he is watching a train. It's literally just sitting there but he is enthralled. Excited by its presence.
Giving him these memories makes me feel like a better mom. It's something www can do together and it only costs me gas.
I'm probably at a pain level of a 8 still but- I'm always in pain and this is a low impact activity. We've been looking up train trips and our goal (when I'm better) is to do a train vacation.
I think being in pain has taught me as a parent to find and nourish the activities that I can do with my kids- and put off other activities. I worry that I'm not getting my kids active enough- but we as a family make an effort to get them to run around outside.
I really fear for the day that he moves on from trains or picks something that involves more walking and moving. Right now I just don't think I could keep up.
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