Patients

I'm always amused by the similarities between me and Twilight, how much we have gone through together. Once I reached a healthy weight it was now my turn to be the stressed, patient parent and wait for Tylo to gain enough weight to comfortably carry a saddle. . .and rider. Gretchen assured me that I would be the very first to ride her, to test her unknown talent. We did not know if she had ever been ridden with a commanding rider on her back. The man Gretchen took Tylo from claimed his children had ridden on her back before, but Gretchen and myself both speculated as to what that meant. Just sitting on a horses back and actually riding one are two completely different areas.  Regardless I was ecstatic and could not contain my inpatients as to when Tylo would be ready to ride.
  I was given a double sided mirror from this experience, I had lived through the torture of gaining weight and now I watched anxiously from the other side. Every day I came to the barn and asked has Tylo gained enough weight yet? Can I ride? Like a constantly whining child asking how far away Christmas is I repeated the question day after day.