Thoughtful Thursday: We can't do it all

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Sometimes I think back to when my boys had colds/flu.. in particular when my eldest had chicken pox before he even turned one.. and I felt so helpless. I had to just sit and watch him itch and itch and I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't make it magically go away... he had to go through it. (The most I could do was put calamine lotion on him!!)

But it's so hard to watch your children in pain or ill and there's not much you can do. We just have to let them soldier through it.

There was a time Jeremiah was ill for nearly a week.. and literally all he was doing was sleeping. He would eat a little.. drink a little.. and sleep. Wake up.. drink a little.. go back to sleep. He had a temperature that wasn't going.. and he was sleeping.
I got him checked out.. and literally I had to just watch him get over it. It was a viral kind of sickness and you know with viruses they have to do its course.. we can't stop it..

But as a parent you always wish that you can take the pain away.. or take the hurt away because we don't want them to go through it...
But we have to also remember as parents that there are going to be situations in life as well where we have to let go of their hand and let them experience things for themselves...

We can't do it all.. as much as we wish we could!

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