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Mommy, I’m Wet

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As much as I dislike the sound of my alarm clock in the morning there is one thing I dislike even more. Those three words coming from the sweetest voice in the whole world. “Mommy, I’m wet” has got to be one of the worst wake up calls ever.

Now, it’s one kind of bad when it happens in the middle of the night, but at least you can go back to bed. However, when it happens not even 30 minutes before your alarm is set to go off, it becomes even more frustrating. Why this is I’m not really sure. It isn’t like you were gonna get a whole heck of a lot more sleep in those 30 minutes.

So, you get up and go find ya boy some different britches and notice that it is still pretty dark outside. A glimmer of hope runs through your mind that maybe it happened really early in the morning and you’ll be able to go back to bed. Then, you look at the clock and your hope disappears cause you don’t have time to get more sleep.

But even then you think “we can just lay down until the alarm goes off” but then you find that their little accident happened in YOUR bed; not theirs. Oh what a morning this is already turning out to be. Good thing it’s Friday.

“Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.”
-Julia Roberts 

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” 
-Franklin P. Jones

Frustration to Anger

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Single motherhood is full of frustrations. Whether potty training, dealing with attitudes as a teen (or toddler!!) or just being a little overworked and exhausted, frustration is just right around the corner. It’s normal. One thing to remember is to not let your frustration boil over into anger. Anger is ugly and it makes you ugly. So, remember that sometimes you need to take a step back and breath. While you’re breathing, say a little prayer. Once you let the frustration boil over you start to lash out. It tends to be a little too easy to lash out at your kids too. They are there, in your face, all the time. I can’t change clothes with privacy anymore. My little one likes to stand just outside the door, which if I close the door he knocks on it and asks if I’m done, until I’m done. With our little mini-selves in our face all the time, they tend to get the brunt of our crankiness.

Remember, anger isn’t the answer. It can come up on you like bad seafood, but you just have to chew it back! Don’t let it spill over into other people’s, especially your little’s, lives. Don’t cause them frustration and anger just because things aren’t going the exact way you wanted. Just take a minute and ask for peace sister.

19 “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.” — James 1:19-20