It looked a lot like playtime today, and it's not a working day! That's right. Today I played at home and in the pool with my boys and my nephew Kai at the Wellness Center Pool. Best part is, they chose me to be the "mama fish" and they were the various species of sucker fish/squid/made-up-poisonous cool sounding fish or mammals that circled around me, being very silly. The boys took rides on my back, gave me kisses on my cheek and loud "zerberts" on my arms (we were a loud bunch in the pool, but it sure was fun.)
After a long week of work, it was fun to play with my children, and imagine with them, to watch them play in their own worlds, I was curious how the story-line might develop and play-out today in the pool. At work, in play therapy in my office there are stories that are often sad or incomplete, or play themes that have violent or tragic themes and stories. And of course those need to be worked out, because that's why we're there at the time.
But again, I pause, I'm grateful for today to be their Momma Mammal Seal (that's what I ended up being, I'm told.) We dove and swam, ate "fish" together, my youngest remininced how he used to nurse from me "just like the seals here would do" and swim off some of their childhood energy during this 107 degree weather!
Goodnight at Peace to All,
Flutterer
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