Mom Patience

Good Afternoon yall!

So I had a whole different subject for my second post but after today and thinking about the meaning of "patience" I feel like this is just something that I personally just need to get off my chest.

You see this little munchkin right here, well he is making me pay for my raising X100. Period.

He is the sweetest little man and has the biggest heart but man can he turn into a turd in the matter of 1 second to the next, but thats just this toddler season of life right? At least thats what I get told from family and strangers that witness the tantrums and arguments. (eye-roll)

He is literally 4 going on 14. Lord help us in the years to come!

What started the thoughts of this post today is the sequence of events from morning to now that made me realize how much patience us parents have.

You remember before you had kids walking through Walmart and seeing this exhausted mother or father having that look of "oh my gosh everyone is starring at me" because they're child is screaming and throwing a huge fit so loud the whole store can hear it. Remember that?

Remember telling yourself,

"oh when I have kids that will never happen! They will know better than to act that way in public"

Well, let me tell you that I my personal experience (look at me trying to act all knowledgeable in parenting) lol - reference back to me explaining none of us have this all figured out in my welcome letter

This happened to me and hit me in the face like a pound of bricks....yup I said it and Im not proud of it either.

Behind every strong willed child is a mom and dad trying to have enough patience to teach them right from wrong. They are trying so hard to keep it together, instead of just giving in to their child who wants candy in the check out line even though you have told them no 10 times, just so you can just get them to stop whining and get out of there.

Parenting isn't always pretty. God gave us mom and dads many hats to wear everyday and honestly its perfectly okay to know that we are all just winging it...literally everyday.

So my point in all of this is that God gave us patience for parenting and for other things but its okay to know and feel like that patience has run thin time to time.

I felt like that today, and it isn't the first time and won't be the last.

Lets just face the facts here, just because your child doesn't listen all the time does NOT make you a bad parent. It does not mean you are failing, it just means they are learning and we are all just learning how to do this thing called "parenting" with them.

Some kids are harder than others, but I promise we will all make it through this alive.

I didn't say I won't lose hair or won't be grey by 45 but hey, we will make it together!

Just remember, if you take anything from this today.

Next time you are somewhere in public and see a mom or dad struggling with their kiddo don't stare and whisper and give dirty looks and make them feel even worse.

It just takes a simple smile and/or say "I understand momma, your doing a good job" because the last thing any of us need is to be put down from total strangers that have literally no idea who you are, what your day has looked like, or what road God has asked you to walk down.

I never knew how much I could love someone until I had Braxton, but I also never knew how much someone could test my patience and still love them so much at the same time when you hear that sweet little voice say "Im sorry mommy, I love you."

So with all this being said. If no one has told you today, your doing a great job!

GODSPEED, he didn't bless us with these little lives and not give us the tools to raise them.

Until next time, Hugs from my house to yours!

- Stormy

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