Thank you. I have learned so much by reading your posts, I just love the Halloween story. Has anything more happened with Rip Van Winkle? I haven't been able to find anything more after your lunch with him.
Trusting,
I keep coming back to your thread in my head and I have felt there was more I wanted to say but couldn't figure it out until just now. I don't know if you have read Hearts Blessings Stages posts, someone resurrected it recently and Snodderly posted on there something that I wholeheartedly agree with. The stages were wonderful although the brain does not usually work quite in the way it was described as far as a step by step procedure. It is more like there is a lot of back and forth between the stages for a long long time. The time line is nice and wouldn't it be wonderful to look at the short end, but I think it is not that cut and dry, and I honestly think the MLC's in shorter duration are few and far between. Use them as a simple guide to keep you knowing that you are not going crazy. You will see things, things that look like forward progress, but then all of a sudden, they will go backwards. Actually, if you are healing and learning, you will do the same thing and boy it is frustrating. But you have kids so you know, you have to crawl before you can walk and walk before you run. And you fall down a whole lot in between. My S crawled then took his steps and never looked back, but most children I know, start to walk but then return to crawling because they are more secure in it, they get where they are going faster, and it isn't until their confidence is built up in their walking ability that they are able to do it all of the time and move on to the next step. It is the same thing with MLC.
"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means understanding that something is what it is and there's got to be a way through it."--Michael J. Fox
