We make sacrifices day in and day out for them. We won't stop, and we don't complain. Instead, we feel humbled for the opportunity to be their parents.
This weekend we took our children to Lagoon, OUT OF LOVE. It's an amusement park about an hour and 15 minutes from our house.
We let them put those hand stamps on our hands that don't come off for 2 weeks, OUT OF LOVE.
We stood in really hot and long lines for all the kiddy rides, OUT OF LOVE.
We maneuvered crowds and people with a stroller, OUT OF LOVE.
We told our son who is now tall enough to ride all the rides that we would ride what ever he wanted, OUT OF LOVE.
We rode Colossus over and over, OUT OF LOVE.
We rode Wild Mouse, OUT OF LOVE.
We rode Wicked over and over, OUT OF LOVE.
We paid a small fortune for dinner at the park, OUT OF LOVE.
And then, purely OUT OF LOVE, I rode The Samurai with our son. Notice that I said "I." Yep, no one else would go with him.(My parents were there too.) NO LOVE. My husband refused. But OUT OF LOVE I got in line with our 56' son.
I warn you while watching this. I hope you didn't just eat.
OUT OF LOVE I went on Wicked again.
OUT OF LOVE I went on Colossus again.
OUT OF LOVE I went on Tidal Wave after all this.
OUT OF LOVE I went on Wicked again.
The park closed and we loaded the car. OUT OF LOVE I tried not to complain about how horrible I felt once I sat down in the car.
OUT OF LOVE, while my husband drove on the freeway and my vision was blurred from my headache, I climbed over two seats to get the blanket out of the back that was under the stroller so our daughter could have a pillow.
OUT OF LOVE I held a bottle in our baby's mouth, backwards until she fell asleep.
OUT OF LOVE I drove home imagining "this" is what a hangover must feel like.
OUT OF LOVE I threw up out the window 6 miles from our house, while we were driving.
OUT OF LOVE my husband hosed the car off for me when we got home.
The next morning when our son told me The Samuri was his favorite ride and asked if I would ride it again with him next summer, OUT OF LOVE, fighting my "Samurai Hangover", I said yes.
What have you done "OUT OF LOVE" for your children?
Have you ever thrown up after riding roller coasters?
If you need something to do. Feel free to watch all the videos in a row, over and over and over. Let me know what happens to you, OUT OF LOVE.
