KAT ROLLED OVER! (Headlining your news)
Feb. 14th, 2019 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salixjIn an amazing display of dexterity young Kat C., just 4 months old, has mastered the art of rolling over.
On Tuesday, as her mother and grandmother were putting items away in the C. family's new apartment Kat, after struggling mightily the whole day, rolled from back to front.
"She kept trying and trying ever since morning! I knew she'd do it soon, but I thought it might be a few more days!" her mother reported, as she held the child, dressed in pink and grey, on her lap. "But you did it!"
"I was in the bathroom," her grandmother said, blushing, "when I heard my daughter call out. So I put her on her back and she did it again!"
The next day she mastered going from stomach to back. Her father, who was there, grumbled "I turned around for just two seconds! Two seconds!" he held up his fingers "and she was on her back." Then he said something in French.
Her grandfather, who wasn't there for either event, just nodded his head sagely and quipped "She's on a roll".
Expectations for the child are quite high, as they have been since birth, for this amazing young lady.
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This is the news from my family today. Tuesday, my granddaughter rolled over, from back to stomach, much as I have described it, and the next day from front to back. Her plopped down and stay days are all over!
Of course, despite my attempts, no international, national, or even local news outlet had the slightest interest in this great event. I was forced to publicize the information myself on all my social media outlets!
Reporters! Go figure. Somehow world leaders, the economy and other such silly things took precedence.
But my granddaughter's rolling over was significant to me, and her family, at least now. The importance will of course subside within the coming months and years, other events superseding this one. First words, first steps, first day of school, first kiss. Twenty or so years from now no one will look back at this date and think "Oh that is when you first rolled over."
It is important now.
What event in your life is important NOW. What has great significance, for you, personally, which may not matter at all to anyone else. Write up the event in your journal as a news article. Interview yourself and write about any one else as if you were an outsider noting the event. Give your article a headline and a subheadline if needed. Date and time and your byline. Does your article need a picture or another image, such as a chart or graph? What will it be? Add images as need be.
Demarcate your article in some fashion and then proceed below:
Does this change your feelings toward the event, seeing it as an outsider might? Reread and experience the event as a reader. What is your overall emotional reaction? Any other feelings come up that are unexpected? Are these different than the original emotions you experienced? What other events are similar to this one? Project from the event to the future. What do you see? What do you hope will happen? How important is this event to the rest of your life.
Though it may seem insignificant in the future, small things matter greatly. Ask any parent whose child, for whatever reason, has never been able to roll over. Small things matter.
On Tuesday, as her mother and grandmother were putting items away in the C. family's new apartment Kat, after struggling mightily the whole day, rolled from back to front.
"She kept trying and trying ever since morning! I knew she'd do it soon, but I thought it might be a few more days!" her mother reported, as she held the child, dressed in pink and grey, on her lap. "But you did it!"
"I was in the bathroom," her grandmother said, blushing, "when I heard my daughter call out. So I put her on her back and she did it again!"
The next day she mastered going from stomach to back. Her father, who was there, grumbled "I turned around for just two seconds! Two seconds!" he held up his fingers "and she was on her back." Then he said something in French.
Her grandfather, who wasn't there for either event, just nodded his head sagely and quipped "She's on a roll".
Expectations for the child are quite high, as they have been since birth, for this amazing young lady.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
This is the news from my family today. Tuesday, my granddaughter rolled over, from back to stomach, much as I have described it, and the next day from front to back. Her plopped down and stay days are all over!
Of course, despite my attempts, no international, national, or even local news outlet had the slightest interest in this great event. I was forced to publicize the information myself on all my social media outlets!
Reporters! Go figure. Somehow world leaders, the economy and other such silly things took precedence.
But my granddaughter's rolling over was significant to me, and her family, at least now. The importance will of course subside within the coming months and years, other events superseding this one. First words, first steps, first day of school, first kiss. Twenty or so years from now no one will look back at this date and think "Oh that is when you first rolled over."
It is important now.
What event in your life is important NOW. What has great significance, for you, personally, which may not matter at all to anyone else. Write up the event in your journal as a news article. Interview yourself and write about any one else as if you were an outsider noting the event. Give your article a headline and a subheadline if needed. Date and time and your byline. Does your article need a picture or another image, such as a chart or graph? What will it be? Add images as need be.
Demarcate your article in some fashion and then proceed below:
Does this change your feelings toward the event, seeing it as an outsider might? Reread and experience the event as a reader. What is your overall emotional reaction? Any other feelings come up that are unexpected? Are these different than the original emotions you experienced? What other events are similar to this one? Project from the event to the future. What do you see? What do you hope will happen? How important is this event to the rest of your life.
Though it may seem insignificant in the future, small things matter greatly. Ask any parent whose child, for whatever reason, has never been able to roll over. Small things matter.
