1More Parenting Moment

My wife's family has a beautiful piece of property in Michigan situated in the middle of nowhere on the quietest lake in the world. We took our kids up there recently and our 3-year-old daughter got to see her first body of water that ISN'T the Ohio River. She also went for her first canoe ride and caught her first TWO fish.

We went out on the pontoon boat with my wife, daughter, father in law, brother in law and some friends. My daughter was using the Mickey Mouse fishing pole that both of my wife's brother's had learned on as children. Papa would cast the line out and then hand the pole to my daughter, letting her watch the bobber and reel it in all on her own. When she got a bite, Papa said "Pull! Pull!" and would coach her to reel in the line quickly. She brought in a good-sized Blue Gill.

Then she did it again. Two fish in a row. When she lifted the second fish out of the water she watched it dangle for a second and then exclaimed, breathlessly, "Holy crap!"

I'm sure she learned that from her mother.

1MoreQuote

"Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the concentration camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend." - Gerda Weissman Klein, Holocaust Survivor

Thanks, Park + Vine!

Thanks so much to the folks who came to the 1 More Day workshop at Park + Vine tonight. If you missed it, I'd love to send you a free digital version of the Resources handout. Just send me an e-mail requesting a copy.