Living in the present

I had a dinner yesterday with my friends who are also SonRise moms. One of them was telling me how because we work hard at our SonRise programs, we may have a sense of "entitlement" that because we work hard, we are entitled to the kids getting better and recovering, and sometimes we don't understand why it may not be happening as fast as we want. She said the most helpful belief is to remember that we can choose to work hard, but the kid gets to decide when he or she wants to open up and grow and recover. It is on his or her terms, at his or her pace. I know this, but sometimes I forget it, so it was nice to hear her saying it again. We just have power over our attitude. The more we want to control the process, the more we delay it; the more we live the present knowing every kid has his/her own pace, the more we accelerate the process.

With that in mind, I LOVED these pictures I got to take today! They are amazing! Enjoy!