Do you have a Monday delight that pumps you to get up and stay pumped?
I am always encouraged by a ray of sunshine or a clear blue sky or brilliant fall colors.
Today is not the case. Look outside, one could easily get "under the weather".
I decided to tell a story that could brighten my day a bit.
We moved to a city called Markam in the Greater Toronto area in 2001 and wanted to take the kids (ages 9 and 3) to downtown Toronto from the beginning. We failed the first time as both of them fell asleep in the car before we even got there.
One day, their father dropped us off at the Ontario Science Center and left for work. There was a maze designed for kids only so I let my 9-year-old daughter led my 3- yeas- old son into the maze. Five minutes later, I heard my son was screaming. He fell on the stairs trying to catch up with his sister. An ambulance was called in. My son screamed on top of his lung; "Don't touch me. I don't like you!"
The ambulance took us straight to The Hospital for Sick Children located in the heart of downtown Toronto. That was the first time we made it to downtown, not the way I would want it though.
Thank God, it was just a minor concussion and a swollen eye. For a few days after, when he looked at himself in the mirror, he would murmur: "one eye is broken, one eye is not."
The moral of the story: out of sight is no way out of trouble.
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