Close Your Eyes

I Love Thursday's

Stalee

My husband had a meeting in Las Vegas this last weekend and since it is a quick two hour drive my girls and I tagged along. I was excited to do something fun with the girls. The alternative was to stay home all day alone. My husband a worked crazy amount of hours for the last few weeks, so at least we would get to see him on the drive. When we dropped Clint off at his meeting a quick feeling of panic went to my stomach. I was in Vegas with my three girls and my husband was not with us. I decided I needed to let my girls in on the fear that I felt so that they would be very obedient. After I scared my girls to death about wandering off and strangers, we found a place to park behind one of the hotels.

I had some plans like the M&M factory

water show at the Bellagio, Coke store, and walking by the cool hotels.

It has been a few years since I have been to Las Vegas and I forgot the things you see just walking down the strip. When the first magazine boxes came up of course my girls looked right at it. I was so shocked at what was inside. I guess I totally forgot about the pictures. I had warned them about the dangers of strangers and getting lost, but I forgot to warn them about the more pressing issue, pornography. I immediately told them not to look at the bad pictures. I told them to just look forward because I saw all the cards on the ground. It was awful!

As I was trying to figure out where to go, the girls talked and decided they were going to close their eyes when they saw the magazine rack coming up ahead. I didn’t realize they were closing their eyes until Lucy ran right into a lady. At first I was a little upset with Lucy and as I was about to tell her to watch where she was going, but then I remembered she could not watch. The next time we came upon the magazines Kamree ran right into a light pole. Luckily she did not get hurt and I decided I better watch where they were going for them. Every block I would hear Kamree announce to the girls, "Close your eyes here comes a newspaper stand."

One time a lady started to laugh at the girls because they started closing their eyes and covering their eyes with their hands. It was almost like each time we came upon a stand they upped their defenses. First don’t look, second close your eyes, third close your eyes and cover them with your hand. I felt embarrassed at first when they lady laughed and then thought why would I be embarrassed. I do have to admit it probably did look funny, a woman with three girls all holding hands walking down the strip while the girls were covering their eyes.

We ended up having a great day and I was so proud of my girls. Kamree, who is eight, asked me why people take naked pictures. My only answer was I don’t know Kamree, I don’t know. It was a great time to talk about modesty and keeping your body clean. To be honest I have that same thought, “Why do people take naked pictures?” It causes so much pain in the world today. My three girls were such an example to me on how I should live my life. When things come up in my life that I know I should stay away from I don’t want to just look away, I want to look away, close my eyes and then cover them with my hands. I want to live my life with a pure heart just like they do.

Stalee