It's not easy!
But IT IS worth it!
Sometimes I want this to be true so badly.
I am a very impatient person and so the waiting part
is the hardest for me.
~Todays Example~
I only found out earlier this morning that my kids school had a disco
dance night. Fun, right? Seeing that they are so young I was almost
positive that this disco night would be for the older grades.
One of the other mums let me know how it worked. She gave me the low
down.
Low Down...
Grades Prep-3 go from 4:30-5:45
Dress up in "Disco" attire
We as parents don't stay unless you signed up to help
(which when I went and got the tickets they were full on helpers)
So let me get this straight.
I am leaving my 6 and 7 year old at a disco dance?
On a Friday night?
Are my kids 16 and 17??
I immediately felt a little sick and thought do I let them go?
My ruby red slippers were clicking together..
"we are not in Utah anymore!!"
Came home from the school and had a massive headache!
Tried getting some outfits together!
Soooo bad wishing I could go up to Grandma Up the Big Hills!
She has heaps of this stuff!
Stressing a little..
Not too much though
Fast forward...
Time to pick up kids from school.
We have 30 minutes to transfer them from little school people
to disco dancers!
Got them home and they wanted nothing to do with it!
Boston put on blue shorts and a tank!
Refused to change into anything else!!!!
Lillie did NOT want her hair down with a headband around her forehead!
I tried not to make it a "thing!" Tried letting them be them!
But the mom guilt came when I got to the school!
Everyone looked so cute!
Or, should I say "groovy"
Not the Americans though
They looked like they were
straight out of the 2013s!!!
All the mums were walking their kids into the school.
I was so embarrassed at how my kids looked that I just let them
jump out and run in.
As I drove away I started to cry.
Why didn't I try harder to make them change their clothes!
What approach would have made it more convincing to my 6 yr old
daughter to put on strange clothes from an era she knows nothing of?
Should have I had "Stayin Alive" blaring from the speakers?
Possibly I could have YouTubed some cool moves for them to learn?
My thought process really started to get me down.
I was crying so HARD over something so dumb!
Poor Paxton kept telling me to stop crying!!
"Here mom, you have super powers (pretending to hand me this awesome power)!"
As I drove my sad little self home
I just thought to myself snap out of it
You have three kids
Who are all healthy little rug rats
STINKERS....but HEALTHY!
SO...
{{{{TAKE THAT PUNCH IN THE FACE...MOTHER CRITICIZER IN MY HEAD}}}}}}}
Life is already hard....I don't need you making it harder!
Peace, Mama Auger
5 comments:
They look cute and happy! Don't be so hard on yourself, you are a great little Aussie mommy! :) You do lots of hard things with very little complaining...you failed to mention you are single parenting it at the time being! I love you to Australia (it seems further than the moon since I can see the moon) and back!!! {BIG HUGS} xoxo
Can pax give me some of his "awesome powers" too? I'm in desperate need of a little help. ;) mom guilt is the worst! You broke my heart a lil' bit, but at the end if the day the thing that only matters is that our kids are still alive...and it looks like you and I both excel at that. ;) I love you!
Can pax give me some of his "awesome powers" too? I'm in desperate need of a little help. ;) mom guilt is the worst! You broke my heart a lil' bit, but at the end if the day the thing that only matters is that our kids are still alive...and it looks like you and I both excel at that. ;) I love you!
ahh, that's how we american's roll, tell the Aussie's to get on board!! hehe! I think your doing awesome! we all know kids have a mind of there own and JUST WON'T do things. It's all good! Chin up! Hunter would be in shorts and a tank with B! Love you!
Seeing that I was there last week, I can attest to the fact that you have NOTHING to feel guilty about. Erin and I were blown away at what great parents you and Jared are. I was with you enough to know if you had something that you needed to feel bad about...and TRUST ME...YOU DON'T. You are great!
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