In the bath tonight Sarah and Lucy started singing "Happy Birthday" to no-one in particular. When I asked Sarah why she was singing happy birthday, she told me it was because she'd made a birthday cake of bubbles in bubble-maker tray.
Reminds me of a show I used to love watching with Bill Crosby called "Kids say the darndest things". It was a very funny show.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Parenting & Contradicting Emotions
"It's the best of jobs. It's the most difficult of jobs. It can bring you the greatest joy. It can cause the greatest pain. There is nothing as fulfilling and exhilarating. There's nothing so depleting and exhausting. No area of your life can make you feel more like a success when everything is going well. No area of your life can make you feel more like a failure when things go wrong.
PARENTING!
The word itself can bring contradicting emotions to the surface."
From Stormie Omartian's "The Power of a Praying Parent" Chapter 1
Lots of friends have been writing comments on Facebook about their kids starting pre-school. One shares that she thinks she enjoys it as much, or maybe more, than her kids. Another shares how she cried the first day her son went. I can relate to both. Shed many tears leaving the girls, but love it when I get to see them again in the afternoon and hear about all the fun things they've done with their friends... and I get a chance to do other stuff as just Alison, not Alison the Mum.
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