Mommy Diaries
Our next mommy meet up is here, Next week Sunday the Children’s Museum of Arts is hosting their annual kids fair. We went last year and had a blast, check out that video here. Please let me know if you will be in attendance, also share with your mommy friends. Hope to see you all there.
My daughter is so tough with a lot of spunk, and I don’t even know what I’m going to do. Everyone who meets Alani raves about how independent, how friendly, how outgoing she is, and how much personality she has, the truth is the expense that comes with this courageous, fearless outgoing personality is bumps and bruises. I have to say that I love her personality yes, but when she’s enjoying life so carefree and gets hurt it hurts me, most of the times it hurts me more than it actually hurts her, and this momma here may shed a tear or two or more.
The other day after one of her little accidents I was talking to my brother, and he said “hey she’s fearless and you gotta love her for it”. I like to consider myself an optimistic soul, and during the conversation with my brother I told him there’s no way that nothing good is going to come out of this personality she has, being so fearless, being so outgoing, this sounds like a BOSS BUSINESS woman to me in the future. So, in the future I will be able to tell her how many mini heart attacks she has given me, but how proud I am at how everything turned out for the better. Pray for me guys, pray for my nerves.
This story as always… To Be Continued…….
Also I love this jacket that we got from @Littlediamondkids
First and foremost thank you the Dream Machine Family for having Sekou and I visit. It was such an experience; thats the best way for me to explain, a dream experience. Loved the blue effect throughout the different rooms.
Although it is very creative, and nice, I feel like the experience was a little ruined, because I’ve been seeing the Dream Machine up and down my instagram timeline, so I already new what to expect. Being the art lover family that we are, we really like to visit places and explore without prior influence, but it was still fun nonetheless.
If you all want to visit, go grab your tickets now, because it ends on May 31st.
In the meantime check out our pictures below
They were giving out cotton candy. Now listen, don’t be fooled.. I workout regularly, but a girl loves her sweets.
When you’re trying to get a decent picture, but people are lingering in the background, so you give them the face LOL
Okay, I’m going to start this post by saying how much I love Zara, and Alani’s relationship. They were born friends lol. Zara has been to just about every mommy meetup, and at the end of the meet up these two never want to part from each other, even though there’s usually some kind of fuss in the middle of playtime, because one doesn’t want to share. They always request more time, and play dates at ones house, which we HAVE to make happen rather sooner than later.
Zara has recently has been diagnosed with segmental vitiligo (Check out her new instagram to follow her story here). Alani has seen Zara on several occasions since her diagnosis, and has never seemed to be curious about it. However, during our most recent Mommy Meet up, Zara and Alani were casually hanging out making their puppets for their parade, and Alani points to Zara’s face, and asks her what’s that on your face. “Oh, Shit” were my exact thoughts, had she hurt Zara feelings? think quick, and respond!! but what do I say? were all running through my head in the 1 second she asked that question. I was really stuck and I just started saying the 1st thing that came to my mind. “Well Lala, everyone is different, so everyone has different skin, and some peoples skin looks like Zara’s and some like yours, some people have things on their bodies that others don’t” and then Zara’s mom Widza chimed in, and said “yes Zara is unique”, and “I said yes everyone is unique; do you see the scar that you have on your forehead from when you had stitches, look at Zara’s head she doesn’t have that, everyone is unique” and I continued to say “so can you say unique LaLa, can you say unique Zara” (they both did), I said “Lala say I’m unique, Zara is unique, but we’re all beautiful”, and she repeated it, then Zara repeated the same, then when I seen Zara smile I knew that Widza have accomplished what I like to call “A teachable moment”.
I have a lot of teachable moments in this life of motherhood, and a lot of times we are caught so off guard and have to think quick, like the one I explained above. This was a teachable moment for both me and the kids, it taught me that I should make a conscious effort to teach Alani about differences, whether that be someone with glasses, hearing aid, wheelchair, someone with different likes, etc. It also taught Alani and Zara about uniqueness.
Widza I love You, and I’m happy we were able to tag team this situation in .5 seconds. I love how strong you’re raising Zara, and I love how you have her chant beautiful affirmations such as “I’m beautiful, I’m a queen, I’m smart etc” (Check out her Instagram for that).
I pray that when the caregivers aren’t around children are understanding and sensitive of their peers differences, and I pray that the children who are considered “different” are confident and strong, and knows how to handle a situation on their own when someone shows inquisition, because we’re not always going to be there.
I think I should do teachable moments posts more often, they can probably helpful for us all. What teachable moments have you all experienced.
