Food for thought!
Well anyway, yesterday my father in law dropped by as my daughter and I were cleaning the carport and my thought was boy I can never get anything done. This was bad for the fact that he lives an hour and a half away and had not seen him in a month. Well anyway my daughter wanted her Grand dad too see the video tape of her gymnastic class so we put it in. The tape went back to Christmas and when we first brought Drake home and the boys basketball games and a bunch of other things. I have to say sitting and watching the past 6 months on tape gave me an attitude adjustment I needed. I realized I was focusing way to much on the negatives and not enough on the positives. As my son watched he realized how much he had improved in basketball and I found a new patience with him. I realized how my daughter was changing into a young lady and was trying to learn to controll the world around her as all kids do. I realized how much work Trevor puts into swimming and to give him a little space on how he prepares himself. How Drake was growing so fast and how fast all of these issues really pass. That all these issues are not issues at all, it is just a matter of growing up and I can either confront them in a positive manner or let them get me down. By me having a positve attitude towards lifes challenges my kids and puppy will approach theirs hopefully in the same way. Remember to give you kids, puppies and loved ones a hug and do not let the rat race of life get you down so much that you forget to tell them you love them. Thanks for letting me vent and reflect. Huggs  |
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| Thank you Intradan, that was just the kind of thing I needed to hear. Lately things have been pretty stressful for me as well.... so much going on... but it's best to keep it all in perspective and appreciate the moments that matter most. |
| It is the time for life change the winter and its slower pase is trading places with the the wirl wind summer.How easy it is to forget how fast life goes by your story is so true and I feel touched by it. I spent the wintrer in florida with just my husband dogs and kids. now its back to work, school and obediance classes.I was feeling theame way just last night but now I think I will go watch our videos from Florida. |
Thank you so much for this post, Intradan. I, too, have been dealing with the new found growing independence in my 6 year old daughter. I have been feeling like pulling my hair out! My 3 year old son has decided that he can'tdo anything for himself. My husband is getting ready to have hernia surgery, so we have been working double duty trying to get the growing lists of to do things out of the way. It finally hit me today that we are so stressed and we aren't sitting down to just relax and be a family in a few weeks. Tonight, before the kids went to bed we read a few books and played a few games. All 4 of us, well and the 2 dogs and 4 cats lounging around us. The kittens wanted to join in and take the game pieces away from us. 
Life usually goes pretty simple, but when extra things that we aren't expecting turn up, our life sometimes turns us for a loop. I can also sit back and look at how much our kids have grown and changed lately. They are growing so fast and I don't like it. My son we just enrolled in pre-k. He will be gone half a day starting in August. My daughter will go into 1st grade and be gone all day. I don't know how life will be like when that happens. Jack, Annabelle and I will just sit around looking at each other saying "where are our kids?" It is nice to hear that I am not the only one that has been stressed out with the quickness of life, and I am glad that this post was able to help me stop and think. Thanks Intradan. Hugs from my family to yours, (non furry and furry) Stormi and co. |
| Thanks so much for your post. I agree sometimes we need to just step back and realize what's important in life. Don't sweat the small stuff, the books say...and they are right of course.
Your message was an important one and thanks for posting it. Marianne |
| Stormi ... you will be so busy with them both in school you will not believe it. Besides the picking them up and dropping them off, you will be helping them learn to spell and read. You will wonder how you will get it all done.
As for the attitude adjustment Intradan, what an insightful summary of a busy life turned round. I identify with it so much, makes me wonder. Never thought so many others were struggling with the same things, with different twists. My parents came down to watch Angela perform in her play. They hadn't eaten and wanted pizza. I do not like any of our pizza places, so I made two huge pizzas. Mom was incredulous, she had only wanted pizza because she thought it would be easy to pick one up. Here I am making home made pizza's, running to pick the older one up from band practice, picking up prescritptions, running back to roll and bake the pizzas and make sure Angela's costume was still intact, walk and feed Abbi and put her out .... I had went to Angela's morning play so I could go with my older one(Teresa) to pick up an award at a school board meeting. And my Mom is upset because I made the pizza, but did not have any sugar free drinks. So I went to the school board meeting and left my husband to take my parents and Angela to the play. He took photographs and video; Teresa and I caught up with them before the end of the play and we all walked home together with the clearest starry night you have ever seen. When we came into the house everyone smelled the pizza, so we sat down and ate it after all, made sugarless tea and turned on the tv and watched Angela's play together. On the same tape we had Teresa's band contest performance and some of our last trip and Christmas stuff on it. Mom and Dad were so relaxed and appreciative, that I enjoyed their company for the first time in a long while. It was a fantastic evening in the end. Sometimes we all need to step back and re-focus. That's always a great message. Thanks for sharing and allowing us to share also. |
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