{"id":195,"date":"2011-04-11T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-04-11T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T22:26:00","slug":"part-of-my-job-is-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Part of My Job Is Knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“Quite well, thank you, how are you today?”
I always answer,
I always tell them,
If they ask me
Politely…
BUT SOMETIMES<\/p>\n

I wish<\/p>\n

That they wouldn’t”
from a poem by A.A. Milnes called ‘Politeness’<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of my job, as mommy, is knowing when it is all getting to be too much, and that you are only falling apart because you are in need… in need of time alone, in need of a hug, a drink, some food, or in need of things going your way just once in a while.<\/p>\n

When I rush you in spite of knowing that ‘you need’ I rush you because I am rushed and, by golly, I am always disappointed when this happens… disappointed that I am rushing, that you are being rushed… when it hits me that you just wish the whole world and all its ‘to dos’ and ‘must dos’ would go away, I too wish it would all go away…<\/p>\n

I wish that we would be left alone to just console one another…
rubbing one anothers backs and talking gibberish,
left alone to squish bugs on the front step,
oblivious to time while we share a snack.<\/p>\n

A reminder to myself to put the daily chores on hold when my actual purpose needs me. My children are my purpose… my husband is my purpose. My house will wait and full fill its role whether it is dirty or clean. Christ is honored when I am able to choose the better way… relationship always trumps tasks.<\/div>\n

TTFN
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