Happy 4th first of all. I always love this holiday.......we really have so much to celebrate that we sometimes take for granted way too often. We are just settling in for the evening. WHEW.......what a day. I have been thinking a lot about a few statements of the week. Someone told me this week that when kids are screaming, that is really them laughing. We are happy people if I choose to believe that! I am also constantly reminded that this too shall pass. I know that it is going to be just a few minutes and I am going to turn around and wish they were this age again.........I just have to keep reminding myself of this.
Maybe the hardest thing about parenting is I HAVE NO CONTROL. EVER. Just when I think I have things under control...............BAM there it goes. Case in point.......today I am getting things ready to go to my sister's for lunch, and everything is going well.........I am mulitasking.........I have about 4 things going at once, all is great..............and then....turn around and there is Delaney standing on the sink in the bathroom pulling down her hair tyes to play with, then I go back into the kitchen and there is Kennedy spraying PAM all over the garbage can. Seriously you just can't make this up. I teach school, in many ways, I have control there. I make decisions, I have the students help make decisions, etc.............but overall things are manageable. I have some control in where we are going, and what we are going to do when we get there, but in no way shape or form do I have any control of how my kids are going to act when we get there. Church.........yeah church......seriously our minister has commented about the beautiful noise (AKA screaming Hall kids) coming from the back of the church the last two times we have went. Church is a workout............some people go to the gym, we go to church to workout. I won't mention how many times my kids have come into the house buck naked since summer has begun..........seriously I have no control......... but this too shall pass. My mother I don't think ever warned me about this aspect of parenting. Maybe wanting the control of them is my biggest downfall...........seriously when we aren't on a schedule or pushing to get somewhere, life is easier to take. All will happen in due time I guess.
Ok.....kid moments of today
Jackson peed through 3 outfits in 10 minutes at my sister's today. I enjoy laundry......I enjoy laundry........I enjoy laundry. Maybe a red, white and blue straightjacket ........what do you think?
Kennedy........belly laughing.............I have got to hear it everyday.........she wears I diaper......I guess I don't know if she is wetting herself !!!! Less laundry! It makes my heart smile. I have also caught her this week biting herself and then comes to me and screams.......knowing Delaney or Jackson will get in trouble.............yeah........going to get even more interesting!!???!!!!!
Delaney......looks at the moon tonight and asks........."Does the moon move?" Yeah deep thought. But Jeff replied "Yes the moon is in space and a lot of things move in space" and her response was "Can we go there in a rocketship?" At my ever ongoing point to get her off of wanting to be a momcooker when she grows up, I told her she will need to grow up and be an astronaut to go to the moon when she is older. No not good enough ...........she wants to go there as a kid. Hope she always has big dreams for herself.
