No rushing!

I remember reading this one post long back, about how a mum realised that she was just hurrying up her little kid all the time...

Rush rush rush in the morning... Rush back from school.. Rush at the super market.. Rush at the park... 

It was always about getting that one task over and done with... That was important..

We have a play date... Plan, get to it, play play play and get home in time for dinner.. 

Till one day she realised that while her kid was walking behind her slowly it was because she was looking at the clouds.. The reason she took time wearing her shoes was because she had noticed a little line of ants in the kitchen... 

Small things like that.. Things that are new to a kid.. Fun for them to observe.. But we give them no time to do..

Just because we are on a schedule we drag them along all day too...

But what if we just moved at their pace? Wouldn't that be nice? 

I thought of all this today because I realised I do this to siddy a lot... When I get him ready for school ... When I pick him up... I rush him to eat so hopefully he can catch a nap.... Once he's up I'm hurrying to feed him again so he can go down to play, lest the other boys get done playing and go home.... 

It's always about keeping up to the day's schedule... 

But today when I picked him up and we parked the car in the building, it was drizzling... And there were puddles all over the compound... 

And our little man started splashing...

My first instinct was to tell at him.. Because I had to rush up and feed him and change to go for a meeting... 

But then I saw him... He was smiling from cheek to cheek.. He was jus so thrilled... He ran around the whole compound looking for tiny puddles to splash in... 

He squealed with joy each time the water splashed on him...

By now his shoes and socks were both drenched .. I was sooooo late.... 

And then I get two calls telling me not to travel today since the rains were creating havoc across town... 

Floods, a fire and a collapsed wall ... 

And yet I smiled and continued watching the cutie have the time of his life!!! 

I guess things have a way to work out... You just have to enjoy your special moments.. And those really are the small ones... The ones that seem like they are nothing... But they are.. They are the ones that bring the biggest smiles to your face... 

It did for him... And for me!!!