I don't need to have met you in person to know that you are great mother. Any woman who can listen to God say "Go, adopt these children as I have adopted you even as you are single." AND LISTEN to Him is incredible.
May 17, 2011 12:52 PM
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Did THAT ever make me smile :) sort of one of those glad it's you not me single momma moments but oh have I had them. It was especially great when my 4 year old had a full arm cast in the middle of a fit at the store becasue I wouldn't buy him treats and the other one, honestly I can't even tell you what my other kid was doing (hows that for good parenting) and I had to fling the cast winger over my shoulder to avoid being beaned....the best part was the dad who walked by pointed and hysterically giggled. Good times. These things happen ALL the time. It's just part of the single momma gongshow I wouldn't trade for anything and honestly, I think you are doing an amazing job. As an over planner myself, that's when rolling with the punches come in and you did it. Your kids are awesome....who wants typical? I certainly don't. You are doing a wicked job with those bambinos.
May 17, 2011 1:00 PM
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Oh I forgot the absolute best part about when my kids go a little wonky in public (prime example the attack of the cast) is my job is working with behavior kids hahaha.
Wonderful to read about Leahs dedication and lovely photos. You ARE a great mother, every mother has their own stories which are cringe worthy. Like the time when our son had been home for a few weeks and he wanted a quick drink before we walked to school. We were running really late, so I grabbed the half glass of blackcurrant juice on the side and gave it to him. I then gasped in horror when he handed the empty glass back to me and I could smell red wine- OH NO - that was Marks wine from the night before! I was then watching him like a hawk as we were walking to school checking if he could walk in a straight line and if he reeked of alcohol! I felt SO guilty. Do you feel better now, water baptismals that's nothing!!!!!!:)
Oh Deb, you are soo funny in your descriptions! So glad the Lord showed you what He was teaching you through that disaster. I am sure the congregation was just smiling...glad it wasn't them up there! haha
Love this story. Someday you will laugh about this...someday...!
If it makes you feel any better, last Sunday in church my 3-month old burped LOUDLY during the pastor's sermon, followed by a torrential spit-up. Of course I had forgotten the burp cloth, so I had to make do with the world's smallest bib. I am certain the proper ladies in the rows around us were horrified. I then handed the baby over to my husband, and he proceeded to have a super-soaker pee-pee geyser that made my husband look like he was the one who had the accident. Yep, I had changed the baby's diaper in a hurry and hadn't secured it sufficiently. :)
And to top it off...Jack is being "babysat" by Nickolodeon as I type this.
Bla... I'm sad to think that you were embarrassed. I think your kids are precious (and toddlers!) If anyone was judging that really makes me mad. Probably some were, but from where we were sitting we enjoyed seeing all of the activity on the stage (not just your little ones). And again, I loved the tap shoes.
May 19, 2011 9:21 AM
Leah was dedicated at church on Sunday.
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[Image]After these lovely pictures, it was a *near* disaster.And that's being generous.Mostly because I didn't plan ahead. At all.
Seth was all over the place and Leah wanted to be also.Ugh.I was SO embarrassed.Felt like the whole church must realize what an awful parent I am and how ridiculous it was/is to adopt as a single person.Yuck.
After a solid day of tears (just ask Keith....) I realized something.I am a good mother.God told me so.
Seth running around the stage and trying to find the "water" from a baptism he saw over a year ago(?!?!?!?), doesn't change that. "Praise the LORD! Blessed is the (wo)man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed."Ps. 112:1-2
Leah crying that she couldn't join big brother on his walk about, doesn't change that. "He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord." Psalm 113:9
God made me to be a mother. I believe that with every ounce of who I am.
And if I needed my ego busted a little bit on Sunday, it worked.I can't do it all by myself. I need God AND I need help sometimes.
Um, exactly WHY didn't I have Mr. Chris or my dad come up to hold Seth?
DUH.The narcissist in me who believes she can handle everything needs to be put to rest.I can't.I needed someone on Sunday and I failed.Not as a mother, although that's how it looked to me at first, but as a woman who failed to think through her ability to handle *life* (or, in this case, two toddlers on stage) alone.(Sigh)When do the lessons stop, Lord?
Here you can see Leah's dedication and the only time my children were still.
It's lovely.[Video]Just before this, Seth was asking loudly about the "water" and trying to find it, all over the stage.
Just after this, the shenanigans got worse when Leah decided that she, too, wanted to find the water. (Monkey see.....)
But we survived.
Leah Grace was blessed.
And I learned, yet again, that it's not all about me. "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in Truth." 3 John 1:4
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Close this window Jump to comment formI don't need to have met you in person to know that you are great mother. Any woman who can listen to God say "Go, adopt these children as I have adopted you even as you are single." AND LISTEN to Him is incredible.
May 17, 2011 12:52 PM
Did THAT ever make me smile :) sort of one of those glad it's you not me single momma moments but oh have I had them. It was especially great when my 4 year old had a full arm cast in the middle of a fit at the store becasue I wouldn't buy him treats and the other one, honestly I can't even tell you what my other kid was doing (hows that for good parenting) and I had to fling the cast winger over my shoulder to avoid being beaned....the best part was the dad who walked by pointed and hysterically giggled. Good times. These things happen ALL the time. It's just part of the single momma gongshow I wouldn't trade for anything and honestly, I think you are doing an amazing job. As an over planner myself, that's when rolling with the punches come in and you did it. Your kids are awesome....who wants typical? I certainly don't. You are doing a wicked job with those bambinos.
May 17, 2011 1:00 PM
Oh I forgot the absolute best part about when my kids go a little wonky in public (prime example the attack of the cast) is my job is working with behavior kids hahaha.
May 17, 2011 7:59 PM
Wonderful to read about Leahs dedication and lovely photos. You ARE a great mother, every mother has their own stories which are cringe worthy. Like the time when our son had been home for a few weeks and he wanted a quick drink before we walked to school. We were running really late, so I grabbed the half glass of blackcurrant juice on the side and gave it to him. I then gasped in horror when he handed the empty glass back to me and I could smell red wine- OH NO - that was Marks wine from the night before! I was then watching him like a hawk as we were walking to school checking if he could walk in a straight line and if he reeked of alcohol! I felt SO guilty. Do you feel better now, water baptismals that's nothing!!!!!!:)
May 18, 2011 12:39 AM
Oh Deb, you are soo funny in your descriptions! So glad the Lord showed you what He was teaching you through that disaster. I am sure the congregation was just smiling...glad it wasn't them up there! haha
May 18, 2011 7:40 AM
Love this story. Someday you will laugh about this...someday...!
If it makes you feel any better, last Sunday in church my 3-month old burped LOUDLY during the pastor's sermon, followed by a torrential spit-up. Of course I had forgotten the burp cloth, so I had to make do with the world's smallest bib. I am certain the proper ladies in the rows around us were horrified. I then handed the baby over to my husband, and he proceeded to have a super-soaker pee-pee geyser that made my husband look like he was the one who had the accident. Yep, I had changed the baby's diaper in a hurry and hadn't secured it sufficiently. :)
And to top it off...Jack is being "babysat" by Nickolodeon as I type this.
Welcome to the Bad Mommy's Club!
May 19, 2011 9:18 AM
Bla... I'm sad to think that you were embarrassed. I think your kids are precious (and toddlers!) If anyone was judging that really makes me mad. Probably some were, but from where we were sitting we enjoyed seeing all of the activity on the stage (not just your little ones). And again, I loved the tap shoes.
May 19, 2011 9:21 AM