To not be good enough

We spent last weekend together with relatives in Sundsvall. We had a "relative-get-together" on my father-in-law´s side. It was 16 (!) years ago since last time. I was a boyfriend to Victoria back then.
We travelled by car (no aircondition, remember). I had prepared with two sets of maps for our children, so they could follow where we were, and a "traffic sign bingo". They didn´t ask many times when to be there. We made a visit to a cousin (and his family) of Victoria. We stayed two nights in a hostel and had a great weekend!
Our children have started an intensive swimmingcourse. They are both doing well. You should see them, and specially our soon five year old son! He simply doesn´t know the meaning of being afraid in the water! In a way he can be dangerous to himself. When he dives for things, he counts to three, barely fills his lungs with air and tries to reach the bottom. After a numerous tries and spitting and coughing, he smiles with the whole face when he succeeds. And then it´s time to dive with the head first, in the pool where he barely can have his head over the surface.
There are so much more to say about all this, and pictures to show you. Perhaps I have the time later, or Vic can make a new bloggentrance with pictures.


On anther blog it was shared a fantastic memory from the past. When you are in some kind of trouble/problem, and everything seems nearly impossible or very hard, it´s good to have someone that at least can light up the way for you. It´s not everytime possible to completely lift away the burden, but everyone can do something to lighten up the situation. It´s not always easy to see/understand when you are in the situation that you get help, and to be thankfull to the person for it, and it´s not easy all the time to see when a person needs help. In both ways the helper and the one in help saw all this. The wisdom in this: I see you are in problem, I help with what I can. You see your problem, and that you get help. You both are thankfull to each other, and grow strong in eachother. What I have been thinking on lately, and learned through this wisdom: When I was a child, my parents took care of me. Many times without me knowing the offering my parents had to make to help me. And now I am a parent myself, I do my best to love, comfort, help, be around, offering myself, and still many times feel to not bee good enough. I have to acknowledge my parents and wife a lot, and should show them my appreciation, so that they as well as I can grow in love.