Escape we did, where who cares, some place beautiful. Escape from our daily routine, our worries, TV our cell phones and i guess just people in general. To reset our compass, what a joy to be able to enjoy my best friend my wife, to just enjoy each other and our children in the most beautiful settings i can imagine. I can say I was able to be one on one with my children, so alive and curious they are. I say one on one because with daily routine of things I find myself being a parent more then a father, by parent i mean, do this and don't do this and why did you that, please quiet down....... which is need they need parenting but with schedule its sometimes all they hear.
Due to part of my upbringing? yes, but i am thankful. My father how do say, was distant, he would try to get close but was always driving back to ways he was raised, the only way he knew from his father. He knew this and struggled with it as I do. As many of us do from are up bringing, but my father effort to improve form his father and I from mine is a continue effort, an effort I hope I can see in my children as they grow and learn form me.
So the time we have together with no outside influences is treasured. I find my self able to let myself a be father (take my parent shield off) with out constraints of time, and schedules. To see my children play, explore, learn, connect as family and remember. A good feeling to relish.
I was able to reflect on things to see where I am as a husband, a father. What are my faults, am I paying attention to whats important or just letting my life run on auto pilot and some day wake up saying what happened?. A self evaluation if you will, out in the open, your wife and your children as your harshest critics because they care and love you, and as they enjoy their time and letting loose, finding themselves, their not going to put up with crap ,as i with theirs,its being true to each other. There's no running to a different part of the house, or escaping to the store, putting things on hold for work. Its here and now lets be open, lets be true, lets be a family......and we did.
With our compass reset and our souls re amped we become stronger upon are our return.
Due to part of my upbringing? yes, but i am thankful. My father how do say, was distant, he would try to get close but was always driving back to ways he was raised, the only way he knew from his father. He knew this and struggled with it as I do. As many of us do from are up bringing, but my father effort to improve form his father and I from mine is a continue effort, an effort I hope I can see in my children as they grow and learn form me.
So the time we have together with no outside influences is treasured. I find my self able to let myself a be father (take my parent shield off) with out constraints of time, and schedules. To see my children play, explore, learn, connect as family and remember. A good feeling to relish.
I was able to reflect on things to see where I am as a husband, a father. What are my faults, am I paying attention to whats important or just letting my life run on auto pilot and some day wake up saying what happened?. A self evaluation if you will, out in the open, your wife and your children as your harshest critics because they care and love you, and as they enjoy their time and letting loose, finding themselves, their not going to put up with crap ,as i with theirs,its being true to each other. There's no running to a different part of the house, or escaping to the store, putting things on hold for work. Its here and now lets be open, lets be true, lets be a family......and we did.
With our compass reset and our souls re amped we become stronger upon are our return.
