There's a little cowboy in us all

I was driving home yesterday and as the key hit the ignition on the car a voice came through the speaker belting out one of my favorite songs.  For our farm family it doesn't get much better than Tim McGraw or Jason Aldean.  A smile came to my face as I heard the lyrics of Tim McGraw's song, "The Cowboy in Me" on the radio. 

It reminded me of a major event that happened to our little cowboy last week and how as moms we can never protect those little cowboys 100% of the time ~ thus the ladder incident at Mimi's. 

Our little cowboy decided he needed to climb the tree in the front of Mimi's yard.  After much thought and analysis of the limbs on the tree he decided he needed some help to get up to the part of the tree where he could propel himself off of.  He decided to go to the iron pile on the side of the shop and grab a ladder (the ladder was only 2 rungs high).  He managed to drag the 2 step cut off ladder to the tree, climbed the ladder, climbed the tree, then yes, you guessed it ~ jumped off the tree.  As he was descending down the tree his boot managed to hit the top rung of the 2 step ladder and it came crashing down on top of his head.  Tears were shed and a gash appeared and then the overprotective mother was called in to assess the damage.  If you have ever seen blood coming from your own child you'll understand the shear panic that poured through me.

My first thought was to go immediately to the emergency room so I called my husband to back me up on the assessment of the gash.  He took one look at it and said, "He's fine.  I have had worse scars and more blood dripping than this!"  He's a cowboy and cowboy's get scars.

That night as my little cowboy and I were snuggling on the couch he said to me, "Mom, sometimes you just gotta fall.  You'll never learn if you don't fall ~ but you always have to get back up!"

Don't worry about past mistakes.  If you didn't reach your goal on the scale, if you didn't get in your walking minutes, if you ate something you shouldn't have. . . . .

remember that you have to learn and to learn we have to fall.  The true cowboy (or in this case cowgirl) dusts herself off and gets back up!

The last part of Tim McGraw's song says it all ~

We ride never worry about the fall

I guess that's just the cowboy in us all.