Hello blogger world! You know that being a mom isn’t always about just being a mom. Typically moms are wives, aunts, sisters, daughters, granddaughters and friends too. Dealing with families and not just your little unit in your home can be just as challenging and amazing. Today I got onto a social media site and found that 1 of my family members had deleted me again. I don’t know why (I didn’t the last time either), but it threw me for a loop. So I took a step back and thought about the possible reasons. So far, nothing. I took some time to pray about it and hopefully I will be able to talk to them about it. We don’t see each other much but I love them just the same. It hurts to think that I may have offended them and they felt it best to delete me instead of coming to me with the issue. My point is, is that families can be difficult but they are your family and you have to make the effort to make it right. You also have to be able to deal with that and still go on with your life. You don’t want to show your kids the ugly side of people/situations right in the moment but what happens when they ask that question…..
“WHY?”
“Why don’t we see so and so anymore or not as much?” “Why are you mad at them?” “Why are they mad at you?” These questions I think should be answered because sometime in their life it will happen to them.
While dealing with family emotions my husband informed me that our alternator seized up in our car. Ahhhh cars!! Horse and buggies are sounding good right now. 🙂 He managed to drive it to the shop but they informed him that they couldn’t get to it until at least tomorrow. I do have to say and I am so thankful that it happened at this time of year when we get our taxes back and not when we are low on money to pay for the repairs. So right now we are just praying that it’s just the alternator, easy fix and on our way. We only have 1 car so getting our 1991 beast up and running is essential!
LOL on top of all of that plus you know normal mom stuff…..I’m sick! AGAIN!! This is the 3rd time this winter that I have been sick. Not sure what is going on but spring can’t come soon enough. I have to laugh sometimes when I get sick because when my husband gets sick the whole world comes to an end and everyone waits on him hand and foot. We all drop everything to take care of him. When I get sick, he says, “Go lay down.” HA! I can’t go lay down because I will wake up thinking a F5 tornado blew through my house. Women/Moms get better quicker if we aren’t stressed (IMO). The last time I listened to him and laid down, I woke up to kids still in their jammies at 2 in the afternoon, hair not brushed, teeth not brushed, medicine not given, cereal all over the floor, dishes all piled up (and an empty dishwasher), no laundry done, rooms destroyed, kids screaming at each other (which is what woke me up) and Dad on the computer playing a game. I started crying. I couldn’t help it. It feels like I don’t really matter when I’m sick. Where are those cute cards and soup in bed like in the movies???
I guess my point in this ‘rant’ post is that being a mom/woman isn’t always pleasant but you really have to remember to just take a moment. It’s not easy, it’s completely against my nature but just something simple as a moment can change your entire outlook on that day. I look back on the verse I put at the bottom of my last post: Do everything without complaining or arguing ~ Philippians 2:14. It is very hard to do everything without complaining. I guess you could say I complained or it may have come off as complaining in this post. That is not my intention. My intention was to shine light on the not so bright issues in my crazy life. Maybe other people can relate to what I am going through.
Crazy Mom, Signing Off
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7