The other night when I was putting the girls to bed, Bailey and Jessey wanted me to sing them a song. I said, "What, mommy doesn't sing." But they both kept insisting so I agreed. After I slaughtered "Hush little Baby" and kissed them good night, Bailey says to me, "mom, you have a pretty singing voice!" I thought to myself, "Either she is tone deaf or she has a very tender, thoughtful and sincere side to her." I concluded both! Joking aside, My Bailey has always expressed her love and admiration to me a number of times.....I remember one night when I was putting the girls to bed and I was very tired myself. I felt like I had repeated myself over and over to these girls to get in bed, but of course they were not listening to me, so in my "mean mom" voice I yelled, "GET IN BED OR ELSE YOU'LL GET IT" (I never know exactly what that means but it does the trick) I was so mad that I didn't even kiss them good night and I shut the door...Loudly! The next thing I hear is Bailey crying saying, "Mom? Mom? I didn't get my kiss, I can't go to sleep without you giving me a kiss!" Jessey on the other hand could have cared less! When I heard Bailey say that, it broke my heart because I knew she needed that...she is different from the other girls in that way and I let my pride and anger get the best of me. She taught me a very valuable lesson that night......No matter how mad and frustrated I get I need to put the feelings of my kids first. That doesn't mean that they will never be in trouble. It just means that I cannot let my pride and anger get in the way of disciplining them with love. This is such a struggle for me, especially around 6-8pm! I am done being a mom at that point and Michael is not always home to help! I love my kids and want to be known as a calm and loving mother.....in their prayer they bless to "please help mom not yell!" (How sad is that!) My Bailey is always a reminder to me of how to forgive and to love!!!!
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That is so tender! Corbin is like that too...the other 2 could care less!
That is so sweet. I totally think that we learn some of our biggest life lessons from our kids! P.S. I LOVE her hair in that picture :)
Thanks for sharing that with us. It is funny how different children need different things for their different personalities. Both Maddie and Gracie like to be sung to...and luckily Tiff has a good voice for them to listen to.
That's pretty cool. I agree we seem to learn just as much or more from our kids than they do from us. I'd like to hear that mean mom voice however!
I love sweet Bailey. We dubbs her when Luke gets home from his mission:)
It's good to know that I am not the only one who is done being a mom from 6pm to 8pm. However, I am worse, I do have Steven home and yet I still can lose my nerve with the kids.
Here I am cyber stalking you!!! I cannot even picture you raising your voice to your kids!! You are such a good Mom!! Bunko was a blast last night and your house is amazing!!
Ya, I've got the "please help Mom not to yell" in the prayer before too. It's my Ethan who reminds me of what I need to be, we learn a lot from those kiddos huh? I can tell you're a great Mom though, wish we lived closer!
Sheryl
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