Erin had an emotional weekend, and she was quiet this morning, but was doing better by tonight. We are lucky that our 10 year old is able to articulate her feelings. She is smart, but she is also wise. Yesterday we'd had a few blow ups with her through the course of the day, but by the time we lied down last night to tuck her in, she had calmed down and become more rational. She told Dan and I that she knew she was being mean and that she was angry and she just had a "zero tolerance" for any advice or comments from us. Wow. That's pretty much cut right through the bullshit, didn't it? Dan and I were using that as a catchphrase all day. It seems that there were a lot of things we had zero tolerance for today!
Emotion hits us at different times and in different ways. It got Erin this weekend with all the activity surrounding the Shannon Cup dedication. It got me as I walked Sunny around the golf course today and thought about Shannon. It got to Dan today when he had a tender moment with one of Shannon's best buds who had obviously been crying. We cannot escape it and we cannot deny it. We must persevere through it. The way out is in ...
