I was walking to the park today with Joey and Jessie. Jessie was actually riding her bike and remained about 20 yeards ahead of Joey and I. One of the reasons for this is that Joey was "mowing" as he made his way to the park...he was pushing his play lawnmower.

As Jessie yelled "hurry up", Joey and I, lagging behind looked ahead. Joey saw a telephone pole about 5 yards ahead and said it was in his way. I assessed the road ahead and told Joey there was plenty of room to go around the pole and stay off the street and on a steady course to catch up with Jessie.

I decided to position myself about halfway between the two of them. Within moments, I heard a little bump and turned around to see that Joey had run his lawn mower into the pole, at which point he said, "See MaDear, I told you [I would run into this]".

I just had to chuckle and say to myself that children can be so adult-like at times.

How many times have I, in my life, known that obstacles were in my path, but also knew that I had plenty of options of paths around them, only to take the very path that headed straight toward the very thing standing in my path that would stop me cold.

Ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends, ex-supervisors, ex-etc., etc.....I'm looking in your direction.