Baby Steps

"Baby steps" That is what Terry said to me one day. I have no idea what we where talking about at the time, But he was refereeing to Kris and how she handles horses. He said she has the ability to recognize the baby steps a horse takes and appreciate them.

I saw it this afternoon, she was working with Hottie her husband John's three year old quarter horse. Hottie is at Pine Monor for Kris to break out/ train to be ridden. And Kris has alot to teach him. For the first three years of Hottie's life he has enjoyed life in the pastures only coming inside when the weather was really bad or to get his feet trimed, there was his leg getting broke when he was a few months old. But that is another story with in its self.

Hottie has grown up to be a very big boy and the hind legs we where worried about after he broke a bone in one of them are doing fine. Hottie knows nothing and scared of everything. He wasn't carted off to shows like the other two Arabian fouls born the spring of 08. You add in Hottie's size, he's a quarter horse which tend to be a little thicker skinned and it has gotten kinda interesting lately.

I saw this afternoon as Kris took what Hottie would give her and didn't react to his over reacting. She was getting somewhere with him even though it might have looked like she was not getting anywhere with him. There where a few times I probley would have reacted much harder or forced the issue more. The difference is Kris was seeing the "baby steps." She was seeing improvement even though she was getting the end result that she wanted.

Can this be taken into our own lives?? You bet. Baby steps are key. Not to many of us, hit the ground running and we have to except the "Baby steps" And we do need reassurance that we are heading in the right direction, even though we are struggling at the time. Just like Kris did with Hottie this afternoon.