It's a learning curve...

Today was warm and dry outside; a perfect day to start working on leash-learning with my boys while on my fantastical new SideStix! Anyone who knows me or reads this blog will know that my main goal in healing and learning to walk again has been to be able to walk both of my boys on my own. Now, judging from the few steps we managed together today, that goal is still set for pretty far in the future... but we have begun working our way confidently toward it!

I've had my Stix for a couple of weeks now and have been working really hard to become one with them and it's happening very quickly which just fills my heart to overflowing beaming! I am so much more stable on solid pavement, building floors, in elevators, getting in and out of vehicles, on the uneven backyard grassed ground and even on the rocky hills at camp. These new walking sticks are giving me back the person I thought I'd lost. So this morning, as we started out to the workshop I thought maybe, just maybe, the boys and I should start learning how to work together as an on-leash/on-Stix unit.....

The grass was a wee bit slick so I took a couple of practice 'runs' on my own first...

Day wasn't always into 'stixin with the group'...



...so I had to do a little begging for cooperation here and there.

.....and then a little more yet....... Day just wasn't so happy to be
working on his leash for the ten minutes we took out of
off-the-leash backyard fun run time.

But some steps, we did pretty well together!

Until entangled again we became.



Play couldn't help but to giggle at mamas keeping-us-all-in-order FUMBLES...



...but then he did feel a tiny guilt pang and told me he was sorry for making fun of me.

I'd say our first attempt at leashes with SideStix was a pretty beautiful success. We will keep working our skills as a team and will learn together. I can do anything for my boys and keeping them healthy and happy is everything to me... as is their incredible patience with a very slow moving mama!



We'll be pro's in no time my PlayDay Duo... no time, at all!