As homeschooling Moms, sometimes we get stressed between church work, housework, homeschool and everything else in "life". It is easy, because they are with us all the time, to forget that "little ears" are listening ALL the time and that they pick up on the things we don't say also!
This week has been a tough week around our house - as I am sure it is for so many of you during this time of year...too much to do and not enough hours in the day to do them in. When the boys had things they wanted to do this week - it didn't help that they were adding to my seemingly endless list of to-dos. My usual (albeit wrong)response would be to put them off or to explain that we have too many other things to get done (yes - it does send the message that they are second on the priority list and yes, as I am typing it I know how bad that is). But this week, with all that is going on in our lives, I realized that they needed our undivided attention - they needed our time! When Daddy walked in and added yet one more item to that to-do list, Mom almost lost it!
You know that moment - the one where you can feel yourself loosing control and in your mind you are sounding like the crazed maniac that you see in the movies - the mom who says things like "I can't be everywhere at once!" or "I cannot do EVERYTHING"....that moment when you make the choice to blow your stack and be in the flesh with the people that you love the most - or make the choice to realize that it is not about you, you were blessed with these people in your life and if you weren't so blooming selfish to think that your to-do list is the most important thing in this world....yeah - that moment!
Well, when that moment came this week - everything in me wanted to blow up and then cry - to mumble under my breath about daddy wanting me to do one more thing and "doesn't he understand all that is going on right now"... - but then it hit me - my boys NEED their daddy, especially right now. He is and should be their hero - he is and should be mine! As homeschooling moms - make the choice - remember little ears are listening to every word and, more importantly, every attitude we send. Let's make sure we are teaching Christlikeness while we are teaching reading, writing and 'rithmetic! Hope you do better at this than I do most of the time! Keep pressing on!
Michele Everson
Proud Wife to Pastor Chad Everson
and Mom of two incredible boys!
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