'H' is 16 months, 6 days old and is still not walking. This is a big issue for me now because she weighs 23 pounds and my wrist and thumb are aching because I spend so much time carrying her. Where is my sling? I misplaced it a few weeks ago and I really need to find it.
She doesn't even like walking with help. She doesn't seem to like to have anything touching her feet. It's weird. I called the county and they are sending someone from the early intervention program out to assess her. I just need to make sure she's structurally sound before I start blaming it all on her sour attitude.
Speaking of attitudes, here is a little something that I keep with me and I pull it out every few months and spend some time thinking about it. A woman named Marilyn McPhee photocopied it for me years ago. It is from an interview with a pastor named Charles Swindoll.
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
"We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes"
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