Playin' outside

I really thought it would get easier to let the kids outside with less supervision as they got older.  And, it is a little, but they don't do normal activities for their age.  Furthermore, I have an excellent imagination for tragedy and crying and future guilt. 

Don't get me wrong.  I do want them to have a healthy fear built from personal experience, but the consequences are getting bigger~  it's less cuts/scrapes/bruises and more the internal bleeding/paralization kind.

This constant realization that I am not in control, and God is,  is what brings me to my knees.

So, I watch them speed to the ramp half wincing, then, relieved with the bloodless outcome, I praise them (and Praise God!) : ) .   Copy that for the trampoline tricks and the tree climbing and snake catching and skiing. 

Not the proper gear, but it is the proper height.

Pendulum play

Brothers are very important people. : )