Okay, I’m a day late on this confession, but we all know I’m imperfect, so don’t be too surprised ;) hehe
This one is kind of a sad story… Yesterday my poor 16 month old got spices in his eye. I wasn’t looking for a minute (if even that long) and in that amount of time, he climbed up on a kitchen chair grabbed the open spice container and dumped a bunch of it out. After touching the spices I guess he felt like it would be a good idea to rub his eyes and the poor boy just started screaming! It was so sad!!! I had to rush him to the bath tub to get it all of his hands and then splash water in his eyes. The poor boy didn’t know why I wouldn’t let him rub his eyes and was VERY upset at me for holding his hands down. He was giving me awful looks because he thought I was being so mean! :( His anger/confusion ended up being good for him though as it made him cry harder and the tears were cleansing his eyes, but it was a rough 5 or so minutes… Just one of those afternoons where you feel sure the “mother of the year” award is passing by your house. ;)
The point:
I feel like a lot of people may be misunderstanding the point of this series. I’m not trying to complain or say that I am a horrible mother. The purpose of this series is to encourage other moms that none of us are perfect. We all make mistakes, and we all do things that we know may not be the absolute 100% BEST thing for our kids and that is all okay! :)
I can think of two women that I am close to that I would want to be like. I admire these women and their motherhood so much! and these women are always real around me. I have seen their kids at their best and I have seen them at their worst. I have seen both mothers at their best and their worst. they never try to hide anything when I come over or act differently because I’m there. They are REAL. I always leave their homes feeling encouraged. Knowing that they are incredible women that I would be proud to be like, but also knowing that they had dirty dishes in their sinks too. or they lost their patience with their toddler, or this or that. Knowing those things about these women makes me respect them so much more, and it encourages me to love my family the way they love theirs. Seeing them be real reminds me to focus more on loving, caring and teaching my kids then on striving for perfection.
At the end of the day I won’t ever succeed in being a perfect mom, but I can succeed in loving my kids with everything I have and making sure they feel loved, protected and cared for. THAT I can succeed in. and that should be my goal. Not trying to appear perfect, but trying to be real, and show real love, and real mistakes, and teach my kids about the real grace the God gives when we make mistakes. That is what is real, and that is what’s important.
This is the point of this series. and I hope that it encourages you today! :)
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Treasures Evermore says
My best friend and I always talk and joke about missing “The Mother of the Year Award”…but sadly it’s true…for all of us!!!! Imperfect people raising imperfect children. So Thankful for GRACE.
Great post. Sorry your little one had to suffer…but probably won’t be the last injury done. I keep telling myself that everytime my grandson gets hurt. Breaks my heart.
Happy Spring!!!
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~Mel~ New Mommy and Loving It! says
I love these posts =) It reminds me that there isn’t a perfect mommy out there and we all have our days. My son is a week old, and it has been one heck of a week. The other day he was laying in his bassinet, in a diaper with a blankie covering him because it was a little warm in our room, and he had been hot a little while before. Well I had turned the fan on, and I guess it got cold really fast, because I looked over to see my little man shivering! It made me cry to think I had made my son cold enough to shiver, and I quickly put some pjs on him and held him close for a good hour.
So thanks for reminding me I’m not the only one who has imperfect moments =)
futurehope says
hi mel! I’m so happy to “meet” you.
oooh I remember the first week. it was so rough, I felt so inadequate!!! I’m sure you are doing a fabulous job!!! It is truly amazing to me to look back on all the things I fretted about during the early weeks of my son’s life and realize, all the things I worried about really weren’t that big of a deal after all. and at that age he won’t even remember 5 mins later if you had to let him cry for a bit or he got too cold ;)
You are definitely not the only imperfect one!!! we are all imperfect together, but you can see the love you have for your little guy even just through your writing, and THAT’S what matters. Far more than “perfection” or the illusion of it!
hope you get some good sleep tonight ;)
<3 paula
Aprille says
I’m loving this series so far. Your poor kiddo on the spices…. but I am really bad about not watching my kid for two minutes and having him get into stuff…thankfully it hasn’t resulted in too much physical harm but I’m sure it has happened!!!
And I think the point of the series is great. I also have a series called “Real Mom” on my website and it’s kind of like yours…
Paula says
awesome! I will have to look for your series :)
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