Wednesday's tend me be a bit of an unstructured day for me, sometimes it's a day to catch up on paper work and all the tedious things that get pushed to the end of the list, or being involved in the Mom's Uphold program while other times it's means walking through the community with no plan just waiting for opportunities for relationship building.
This past Wednesday was one of those days. I went to the Warden public school to run into some of my kids, to maybe meet some new faces and to just be present and see what would come from it. After wondering through the hallways and catching up with different kids, figuring out why some of had been missing from program due to being grounded and such I wondered outside to find two of my super loyal girls complaining about having to walk home. I told them I was going that way and would love to walk with them and so we started on our way trekking through the snow.
It wasn't long before they both began chattering away telling me about the latest cutest boys, their first kiss's and all the drama and so and so dating so and so and then that other person and so on. The whole way home they talked and talked. I told know if reading this you understand the significance of how happy this made me. You see I don't always have these moments and the kids don't always want to talk or share whats going on in their lives. You can't plan something like this, but the fact that I had no where to be except walking them home just because created a time of openness and relationship building that I treasure greatly.
A normal interaction as I hang around the public school on at random times such as this my kids will run up to me whether they are 5, 8 or 14 saying "Jello, what are you doing here", to which I love to respond, "I'm here to see You" whatever that means in that moment, whether it means we talk for a few moments of I spend the next 1/2 hr walking them home, it's exactly what it should be.
I love what you do. <3
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