“Well, no one can ever say that our life is boring.” This is statement that I hear my hubby say on a regular basis (at least once a week) and it is very true. I doubt very many families have boring lives, there’s always something to keep you on your toes right?
If you have a toddler or preschooler you are in the thick of some of the craziest parenting years you will ever encounter. Not to say that you don’t have to call upon some seriously strong parenting tecniques once you get to the tween and teen years, but you don’t feel like you’re running your heels off to keep up (just your brain and your car’s tires LOL).
I’ve heard many moms of (especially boy) preschoolers say that “They just haven’t grown a brain yet.” That feels so very true! They do things that absolutely without a doubt should definitely kill them, yet, for some reason (usually because we somehow managed to intervene) they are still alive and healthy.
Parenting doesn’t have a time clock, and rarely do things go according to plan. That is kind of the name of the game with parenting though I think…to help us grow and change in ways that we could not if we do not experience the power of parenthood for ourselves.
I can easily say that right at this moment as both of my twins are peacefully napping away and all 4 of the older boys are busy doing other things on their own. It’s a lot harder to see the benefits when my heart is in my stomach as I pull a three year old off of the 6 foot high cubby shelves in the living room, or find him standing precariously on the back of the couch leaning over to try and grab something off a shelf of a cabinet a few feet away. (And how do they get themselves into those predicaments so quickly, less than a minute is not exaggerating a bit!)
Because parenting is a day in and day out event, we definitely change as time goes by, but we rarely take a moment to really look at those changes. So today I have a challenge for you…I want to encourage you to think back a little, grab your journal and write down at least one way you have changed for the better simply through motherhood.
If you can’t think of anything, I encourage you to pray about it and think about it over the next few days or this entire week even and see what you come up with. If you have kept a journal over the years, you may have an easier time by looking back through those.
Here’s one of my examples:
Through motherhood I have learned to respect the differences of my children and try to look at people a lot more objectively realizing that personality has a lot to do with how they perceive the world around them. Through Motherhood I am still learning to act as the situation dictates instead of reacting to everything that comes my way.
I pray that you are blessed by the answers you find as you look back too!
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