Timing

It was a rough morning….again. When I look back at these mornings, I can’t even recall how we got from waking up in a good mood (me) to screaming, whining, and shoving kids out the door. I even turned the radio up extra loud in the car to drown out the whining. Just call me mother of the year.

I hate it when that happens, I really do. I don’t want to send my kids off for the day with that memory. I know every morning will not be perfect, and most will be far from it, but I want my kids to know I love them, and I want to have time to listen to them, get them breakfast if they are hungry…you know, the little things. But this morning everything just escalated –everything I did or told Abbie just turned into her whining and Henry just runs around either crying to be held, or if I don’t have time to hold him he just starts getting into everything. And then my blood pressure rises, and I NEED A TIME OUT. And it’s only 8 o clock.

Then I read a daily devotion in my inbox. You want to know the title? “Unglue Mama Mornings”. Really God??!! So I guess You were watching. I felt like it was written just for me. And you know what else? If I had woken up just a few minutes earlier, and read that this morning, before rushing to get my day started, I would have probably had a whole new perspective on my kid’s behavior.

The key verse was Ephesians 4:22-24 – “You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”



Sounds like this verse is telling me to be selfless, to be more like Him, to change my attitude. Yea. I needed to hear that. It’s not all about me. Phew. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.