I’ll start by telling my mother and mother-in-law to stop reading and ignore the picture.  The Austin family has started to spread out across Central Connecticut and meander further than the Newington Town Line.   Today we explored a bit in Avon and found a pretty cool shopping plaza with a great playground and a Ben and Jerry’s!  Win for me.  This is where Coop-a-Doop took it upon himself to try and climb up the slide.  He failed two or three times but kept trying and finally got to the top.  Beaming with pride, he quickly went down and tried it again.

As I sat there watching my little man work so hard to get to the top it struck me as a little analogous of life. Every day millions of people go to their respective jobs, work really hard to get to the top, get knocked down a few times and try again.  The falls are sometimes harder than others but the successes are really great.  So, to all of you who’re preparing for work tomorrow (or an October without the Yankees) you should remember Cooper’s little challenge today.  Keep climbing up the slide and remember, the falls are all just lessons you can learn to get to the top…. except for the ones that send you to the hospital with a broken arm… luckily that one didn’t happen 🙂