Yvon (12): "Did you hear me come in last night?"
Rémi (11): "Nope. I was asleep, trying to dream my favourite dream!...but it didn't work!"
That pretty much explains where I was this February, sleeping and trying to dream my favourite dream. What would that be? Well, when I was 16 years old, I was in a devastating car accident (that's a whole other blog post to come back to later as well!). Truly, I'm very lucky to be alive. I sustained many injuries and one was a compression fracture to my upper spine and a curve/twist to my lower spine. Over time, my spine will re-injure from daily use and it gave up on me right after Christmas. I've been on my back since then, with the hope that I would feel back to normal in February. That didn't happen. My injury was much worse than I thought and my healing extended into February which sent me into dream land. Dreaming that each day would send me a healthier back, that I would make that turn in my healing to "back to normal activity". It didn't happen. My "favourite dream" didn't happen. It still hasn't happened. So many February tears were proof that it just didn't happen.
But I learned something. Sometimes life is just like that. We're sleeping to the reality that is life and trying to dream our favourite dream instead.
I wish I thought to say to my son,
"Don't wait until you're asleep to dream your dreams Rémi, stay awake and work towards making your dreams come true!"
I believing in dreaming. The 2014 Sochi Olympics ignited new dreams in my children as dreams came true for other people's children - the Olympians! They were a mid-winter inspiration for all of us.
I've made a new dream for my back:
Stay awake and work everyday towards making my dreams come true!
Think about what I can do instead of what I can't do. I can't return to "normal everyday activity" yet, but I can rest my back and enjoy reading to my kids the books that we have been wanting to read for a long time. I can open the opportunity for my kids to work along side of me and help me with the things I can't do. And most of all, I can listen to and watch my kids as they dream their dreams and work everyday to make them come true.
Here are a few of my kids' dreams at work:
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| Yvon has a gift for snowboarding - even on cheap snowboards! He now has the 2018 Olympics in mind! |
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| Melaia's latest adventure is creating clothing for her dolls out of scrap material around the house. |
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| Creative Olympic dreams by Rémi |
To me, this video of Rémi playing with our dog & a friend's dog,
is the epitome of dreams at work.
Dream on,
daisy
