I'm not sure what to say today (or yesterday). I got paid for 2 of the 3 weeks, left a voicemail last night that has yet to be returned. I've got crazy moods going on, so I'm sure that's not going to be pleasurable reading. I've got my second order for bread from the same guy at Dusty's work. He wants a cake too, but not a decorated, or even smoothed, cake. "Just a one layer cake with some icing slapped on it." I kind of want to tell him just to go to Walmart. (Wow, that wasn't supposed to be a substitute for an inappropriate statement at all, but it did kind of allude to that.) Anyway, I've been wanting to try this chocolate cake recipe for a while, so I decided to go ahead and make him a teensy cake and make a cake for us too. It worked out perfectly, and the cake is REALLY good. I'll have to take a picture of it, now that it has been cut into.
I have many complaints that I could offer, but I'm trying to cut back. I'll just say that I have one of the smartest children I have ever seen, and she offers daily challenges, not with intelligence, but with boundaries. She is difficult to discipline because she is only 3, but everyone who meets her wouldn't believe it. The guy at Chick-fil-A today thought she was in first grade. He walked up and she read his name tag, and he was impressed, so we had her read the cup. It said "Exhale Slowly, it cools the mouth." She hadn't ever read exhale before, but she sounded it out. Yep. Reads like a first grader, or better. Anyway, he was appalled that she was only 3. Who isn't? I am! And thus, my discipline problems.
I know. Life will work itself out. It's just days like today that really test who I am as a person, a Christian, and definitely as a mother.
Jennie, I cannot speak for the other readers of your blog, but it does not bother me when you complain. You need an outlet, so why not let it out? We understand where you are coming from.
ReplyDeleteYou are running into the downside of precocious children...with intelligence comes the ability to challenge boundaries in new and interesting ways. I would rather have an intelligent prodigy who is a handful than a mediocre child who is docile. Of course you could also have a mediocre child who is a handful or an intelligent one who is docile.
No matter...all children are difficult, some just more than others. That is why mothers are paid such high wages...:)