Sure, I’ll Help!

November 17th, 2009 . Posted in Kids, Uncategorized | No Comments »
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So, my middle child is in preschool.  Preschool is a wonderful thing.  Lots of playing, painting, and parties.  Luckily, thanks to my son’s wonderful teacher, there is also learning encorporated into all of the aforementioned pleasures. 

She has started a new system during the last hour of class in which she incorporates center rotations.  She has asked for parent volunteers to help with the centers. 

I told her I would be happy to help, and I was.

Things went smoothly, the class was well behaved, their art projects were a smashing success, and I walked away happy.  As I loaded my son into his booster seat, he told me (with his adorable lisp and inability to say l’s, or r’s),

“Mommy, I thtiww (still) wuv you, but I never want you to come to my prethkool (preschool) ever again, and thith time I mean it!”

He said it with such passion that I nearly peed my pants.  I had hardly interacted with him as “my son” so I was quite surprised with is reaction to my visit.

I informed him that I had already volunteered to help again the following Monday during their Thanksgiving party so he was out of luck.

After a little contemplation, he came up with a solution, “Weww, (well) you can pretend to be Kam’th mother then.”

At least he still loves me right?

Everybody Needs a Little Sunshine

August 11th, 2009 . Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I am a suburban mother of three beautiful children who has the tendency to complain.  I hear it all the time, “I don’t want to clean my room!”  “Democrats are too liberal,”  “Republicans are too conservative,”  “Gas is too much,”  “My house isn’t worth enough.”  Negative thoughts and discussions are all around us.  It is so easy to get caught up in the complaining.  I’m sure each one of us could find something to complain about if we looked long and hard enough, but why should we?  I mean, spending our whole lives focusing on the negatives around us just can’t be doing us any favors. 

That is why I am dedicating this blog to the positives. 

There are positives, and they happen to be all around us too.  Sometimes they are just harder to see. 

For instance, a few short days ago, my darling little toddler dumped an entire box of cereal on the floor, an entire FULL box of cereal.  I nearly lost my mind!  I had been cleaning all day and the house ended up looking no different than it had that morning.  After giving the little dear a stern “NO, NO!” I went to work cleaning it up.  Before I knew it my two older boys were joining in and the moment suddenly had a little sense of sweetness.  Instead of losing my mind like I had originally planned, I was able to take a deep breathe and enjoy working together with my kids.  We ended up having a good laugh about the whole situation.  Allowing that little bit of sunshine in kept a lot of potential darkness out! 

That’s my challenge to you.  Look for the sunshine in your life, then scatter it to others.  Heaven knows we could all use a little more light every now and again!