{"id":616,"date":"2009-06-14T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-06-14T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T22:09:00","slug":"mom-and-tot-get-away-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Mom and Tot Get Away Camp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think my husband was really surprise I actually went through with this plan!  I don&#8217;t think I would be called a &#8216;go getter&#8217; in the area of planning big things with the kids.  I like to keep things small, simple and well planned out.  Deciding to take my boys (one still nursing) off to a camp (that I had never been to before) for the weekend was out of character&#8230; It just felt right so I went for it.<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SjV1SS-qr9I\/AAAAAAAAEVM\/H-wiBnHyw3E\/s1600-h\/12-06-09_1813.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SjV1SS-qr9I\/AAAAAAAAEVM\/H-wiBnHyw3E\/s400\/12-06-09_1813.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347309089765109714\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I felt lead to do this for my oldest boy, for his relationship with me and I know it was RIGHT!  We had been having our struggles lately and he was so out of sorts with me.  My little gentleman wasn&#8217;t happy around me and I knew he needed some direct attention and time.<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SjV1S7od8SI\/AAAAAAAAEVc\/bjv1BDhkoCQ\/s1600-h\/12-06-09_1928.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SjV1S7od8SI\/AAAAAAAAEVc\/bjv1BDhkoCQ\/s400\/12-06-09_1928.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347309100677853474\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We all realise girls are emotionally connected but I realized this weekend my boy is really aware of my emotional state.  He knew I had been stressed with all the changes in life lately and so he was acting out.  By the end of the weekend the puzzle came together.  Words like &#8216;I hate it when you are mad.&#8217; and &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to be mad but you are.&#8217; hit home.  I started explaining if I was disciplining him I wasn&#8217;t angry, just doing my job.  If he could accept the discipline we could both move on.  He is a practical boy and normally good natured so he was able to accept that and in no time we where having a blast together. <\/p>\n<p>We had time to talk about why I have been busy and stressed lately and I told him I was sorry for being grumpy.  We discussed that when parents are grumpy it doesn&#8217;t always mean he has been bad.  It isn&#8217;t his job to fix it every time I am sad or stressed.  He liked my suggestion about praying for mom and dad when we are stressed.  &#8220;I can do that.&#8221; he said&#8230; and he was already off playing.  He doesn&#8217;t need much but he does need that little bit to make it right.  My little man is quick to forgive and I love that about his bright little heart!<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SjV1SryymyI\/AAAAAAAAEVU\/-pBkmu-waK8\/s1600-h\/12-06-09_1927.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SjV1SryymyI\/AAAAAAAAEVU\/-pBkmu-waK8\/s400\/12-06-09_1927.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347309096426183458\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I also realized how much &#8216;mom chatter&#8217; I have in my head ALL THE TIME!  This weekend, with meals and jobs done for us, I was actually present in what ever I was doing.  I ate when we where eating, I sat when we where sitting&#8230; no thinking about what next, what to do, what didn&#8217;t I do, what should I do and so on and so forth. This experience was such a blessing!  Just to BE for a while was so sweet!<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my husband was really surprise I actually went through with this plan! I don&#8217;t think I would be called a &#8216;go getter&#8217; in the area of planning big things with the kids. I like to keep things small, simple and well planned out. Deciding to take my boys (one still nursing) off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,8,10,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}