Jogging Strollers: Usually when Karl gets on the bus and it is pouring down rain, I hustle Phillip and Rita inside and I pull out one of my beloved exercise videos and we get a good workout indoors. But an exercise video wasn't going to cut it today. You see, Phillip, who has been getting up multiple times each night for the last three weeks, woke up at 5:20am and would not go back to sleep. The result being that I wasn't too happy most of the morning. So, I decided that today needed something special to snap me out of my bad attitude about mothering. I bundled Phillip and Rita up really well and we went for a run in the pouring down rain. And just as I had hoped, going for a run helped a lot.
Random Strangers: While at the grocery store this afternoon a kind, older lady stopped us and asked if we knew where the peanut butter was. I pointed out the isle to her. She then told me what a beautiful family I had. I thanked her but internally grumbled. This kind lady asked me the ages of the kids and I told her 5, 3, and 1. She told me that she also had two boys and one girl in the same order and about the same age difference. Then she said, "It's worth it." I almost burst into tears at that moment because I had been asking myself all day if it really is. During the course of our conversation she mentioned that she used to go into her bathroom and cry because it was so hard. How did she know that I had spent 10 minutes crying in Rita's room this afternoon? Our conversation was quick, only lasting less than three minutes, but this kind lady made my day. Granted, Phillip still threw a 20-minute raging fit this evening while Rita and Karl were in the tub and Dusty was gone at graduate class. But we survived the day and I will thank Heavenly Father for this kind stranger who was an answer to my prayers.
3 comments:
What a sweet lady! And what an awesome mom you are Janeece. Your kids are so lucky to have you. Don't know how you do everything you do.
Thank heavens for kind words from strangers!
I meant to tell you last week how deeply my heart was touched seeing your two boys give each other the sweetest, longest little hug I have ever seen between brothers. It actually brought a tear or two to my eye. And I just kept thinking, "Wow, look at the level of love those kids have learned from their parents. Wow." You and Dusty are seriously the kind of parents where if every kid in the world had parents like you it would be Heaven on earth. (And it gets easier, I promise.)
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