This morning I was reading a chapter in "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family"..I know I've mentioned this book before..quick little chapters that are so full of truth and good advice...This chapter was "Work on absolute acceptance of those you love most"...uggh, SMACK up side of my head...
I find myself losing my patience with my kids so easily sometimes..each has their things that they do that set me off...I'm sure I do things they don't like either, but I'm the Mommy..lol...Chaz has a way of tuning me out and I have to tell him things ONE HUNDRED times to get him to finally hear me...and then I yell..and Bailey is slow in the morning and makes us run later than we would like cause she takes forever to eat, gets distracted by playing with the dog, lays back on the sofa ..etc etc..and I yell..this morning was one of those mornings..and she told me on the way out she wishes I wouldn't yell at her and would talk nicer or something like that..of course my rebuttal was .."when I do talk nicely or more softly, I get no response out of you"...and it's true..but I hate yelling all the time..or repeating myself all the time..but they are kids..I have to remember that..and I love them, along with Brad, the most in this world, yet I am so quick to get aggrevated by things they do and lose my patience...
A quote out of this chapter was "While we can quite easily overlook or simply ignore the negativity or idiosyncrasies of complete strangers, it's difficult to do the same with our children or our spouses".... "What I learned was that I (the author), like most people, levy my most demanding expectations on those people whom I love the most"...isn't that so true?
I need to lighten up...and stop the madness..and the yelling...geez!
On another note, Project Life Week4 coming next..it's all done, I just have to photograph it :)
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