Today

Today, I took the boys to Chic-fil-a and let them play in their play room while I drank some coffee and watched. It was so much fun to hear Parker playing with other kids having such a great time and then occasionally checking in with me saying "HI MOMMY!!!!!" from way up high! Then, we had a chicken nugget snack and went home to let them play in the rain and then take a hot bubble bath afterwards.

This was such a fun morning!!! I love that all I have to do in my world right now is play with my kids (and of course do my "home" obligations as a wife too!!!) but the majority of my time is for being a mommy! How blessed I am!!! Lately, Parker has been going through a VERY VERY defiant stage. It has left me defeated and frustrated, constantly questioning and second guessing my judgement and feeling frustrated that my sweet little boy can be SO BAD sometimes! However, today...he was perfect! Obedient, sweet, kind and my normal little PRECIOUS boy!!! I am grateful for TODAY...I am grateful that today we had SO much fun together. Part of discipline, I am learning, is spending quality time with your boys...GOOD quality time...without that, discipline won't be as effective. They need to see you and ENJOY you as a mother so that when you have to be "mean", they know that it's because they were wrong and not because that is how mommy is!

Even though motherhood can be tough sometimes....man....I am SO GRATEFUL that GOD-CHOSE-ME to raise my children! I know that it's important to Him that I raise them too...I heard the other day on a radio show how God does want mothers to raise their kids, look at how he brought Moses back to HIS MOTHER for him to be raised through these character building years! Thank you Father....thank you that YOU PROVIDE everything we need so that I can stay with them! Thank you, that they are healthy and thank you that they are HERE with me and that I get to enjoy them!!!