We are one of those families that I thought we weren’t going to be… we run from here to there, doing lots of different activities and ending up with a very full week of stuff to do.
I drive a mom taxi and even typing that makes me cringe. But our bustling days are only examining the Big Picture of the weekdays. If I look at every piece that makes up our week, I see that each choice we’ve made benefits at least one of us in our family. And I can live with that, but I think the mom taxi label bubbles just below the surface.
The moment I had happened just today when we were all getting ready to go to temple for a sabbath service geared toward kids and Grades One and Two of Hebrew School were to sing songs throughout. I had taken my 9-year-old to the doctor for a routine check-up and had about ten minutes to get ready to go. My 6-year-old asked me where we were going and I told him for the fourth time that we were going to temple to hear him sing with his classmates.
“Oh. Well, I don’t know any songs. We don’t sing in class.”
“But the service is especially for you to sing the songs you’ve learned.”
“I don’t know anything about that.”
“But your teachers, Mrs. J. and Mrs. S. sent me a special note about it.”
“I don’t know who they are. There’s a Mr. J., but he’s at my regular school.”
“You don’t know Mrs. J. and Mrs. S.?”
“Uh-uh. Can I have a snack?”
What the what? Is he just messing with me? And why am I busting my backside to get to this blessed service if he has no idea what he’s doing? All the running around and scheduling and making sure I don’t forget one little thing was all swirling in my head. He pushed me beyond disbelief. So, you know what I said to him?
“Go put on your shoes.”
And we all went.
And he knew every song.
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Priceless! And so like a boy! 🙂
I know that I continually evaluate the things we get the boys involved in. Somedays it’s tough to make it all work, and we’ve added and subtracted to the schedule over the years. Sometimes I can’t believe all the hounding I do, so I check in the with boys periodically, reminding them of how their choices they make now effect the choices they’ll be able to have when they grow up. And then I ask them if they want me to continue to hound them…and they say yes.
No matter how much I screw up motherhood, as long as my kids understand why I hound them, and even want it to continue, I can’t be missing the boat entirely!
Ha! I didn’t realize till just now that Linda, you, Candy and I all have 2 boys. Funny! They can be quite the characters can’t they?! It is tough trying to get every where you need and want to be. My wish is that with every crazy moment you have a counter zen moment to balance it all.
Thanks Kristen. The zen does come, but it’s usually after they are asleep 🙂
LOL, so typical for kids (and definitely for boys). Sometimes I think it’s easier to just go and not really examine the details. It’s exhausting just thinking about them. Don’t you have days where you are amazed at what was accomplished by bed time? Moms are machines and we don’t give ourselves enough credit sometimes.
They sure learn to work it, don’t they? Some days I feel like a mama duck trying to herd her brood across an interstate freeway. How did this happen? We’re not one of “those” families… are we?
omg, HILARIOUS! kids are so crazy and funny.