It is amazing how many choices we make on a daily basis. These choices will have consequences as well as successes. Most of these choices we make with a full understanding of the aftermath. We do not even think of the aftermath...we simply know what will happen. This skill has to come from some where. We choose to be who we are. Why do we choose to be someone who strives to be someone else. We can still make a choice to be who we are.

During this post I started to reflect on how simple choosing a direction can be. I looked to my son, who is two and is learning all about choices now. He turned to me one night this week and decided to not wear a shirt to bed. It is the middle of winter here, so I started to fuss and was tempted to have him throw that tamtrum and put a shirt on him. But I relaxed a little and let him go to bed without a shirt (I made sure that he was bundled up with blankets and that the house temp was set a little higher). In the middle of the night he came wandering into my bedroom holding a shirt. I put a shirt on him and put him back to bed. Such as small lesson, but a huge lesson in choice, and what the outcomes are of that choice. I hope he will continue to explore choices and will become good at making choices for his happiness.

Sending everyone warm persimmon hugs!!!!
~Alissa