Anyway, when I dropped Jem off this morning, Tru went in with me. And while I was getting Jem settled his teacher came over and said, "You have two of the sweetest boys."
Did I smile and say, "Thank you."? Nope. I opened my mouth and said, "Just wait until you spend a little more time with them." Ugh! Really, Brooke?!
In my head I was thinking of the night before and the epic battle I had with Truett over green beans. I was thinking of being called names and having a pen thrown at my head. I was thinking of little hands smacking me and water being purposely spilled. So I wasn't really in a space to hear how sweet my kids are. But I need to learn to keep that stuff to myself and to not act so surprised when someone compliments my children. I do have good kids. They have good manners and they typically play well with others. But they are still kids and they have bad days, bad moments, and I take the brunt of that. We are working through it and this morning was a reminder that I need to be thankful when someone sees the good in my kids and tells me about it. Because too often I get overwhelmed with the bad and forget about the good.
photo by: marsmet511 http://www.flickr.com/photos/72795156@N08/6945534139/
Man. I totally relate to this. It's hard, because when you're in the trenches, you are so close to the nitty-gritty, you can't see the horizon sometimes. Give yourself grace. We've all been there.
ReplyDelete(And thanks for linking up to The Parent 'Hood's first synchroblog! FYI: Your link goes to your blog, not this post. But I assume you wanted to link to this post because of the thumbnail picture?)