Good things….. February 12, 2012

Aaaaaaaargh!

Do I have your attention?  Good! Because I feel like I’m teetering on the edge of a great pool of despair and I’m about to fall in.

It’s been such a busy week and I am tired.  Being tired always makes me so grumpy.  I also know that a ‘friend’ wants to ‘talk’ to me and you know that any talk in inverted commas is never a good talk.   Today, for the first time in a couple of days I’ll be seeing my (senile) Father in Law (http://thedementiadiary.wordpress.com/), which because I am tired will be a struggle.  I have to keep patient. We’re taking him to my Mum’s which should help; A problem shared and all that!

 

So I’m looking now for a couple of positives to see me through the day and I’ve come up with a couple.

The first is dinner cooked by my mum.  I don’t think there’s many people in the world who don’t love their mum’s cooking (except my kids who have weird eating habits but that’s another story) and I am no exception.

The other is this post that I’ve just found http://chittlechattle.wordpress.com/a-collage-a-day/

It’s half term so the kids are at home.  My work is reduced during the holidays so I’ll be looking for creative ideas to share and do with my children, and this really inspired me.  I’m looking forward to doing some similar things.

Right off I go now into the day………..

Choosing my words………. January 30, 2012

There’s a lot of things I’d like to get off my chest, but I’m very aware that  putting something down in writing somehow makes it permanent and un-erasable in history.

Instead, today, because I am choosing my words carefully I will take this time to say how proud I am of my children.

My role, as I see it, as a parent is to raise confident, compassionate, level-headed human beings capable of functioning in an evermore complicated world.  Both of my children have had trying weeks (daughter slightly more so with the terrible death of a fellow student at her school on top of a family death and another by association).

Every evening husband and I leave them to visit Senile Father in Law (http://thedementiadiary.wordpress.com/)

They never complain. They never whine. They don’t ask for more than we can give.

They do their chores.  They do their homework.  They get themselves up dressed and ready for school.  They share their worries with us and they listen to ours.

My children are amazing.