Anybody with kids will empathize with our evening. And those of you without kids will experience this someday.
Chad and I try really hard to do the right things for our little family: family prayer, scripture study, family night, reading, playing, family dinner at the table etc. etc. But most Mondays our efforts are shoved back in our faces with fighting, crying, teasing, etc. etc. Most of the time we can at least get something resembling a lesson, song, prayer in before we are pulling our hair out. I wanted today to be different, so I was going to circumvent the normal pitfalls by fixing the kids a separate meal I know they will eat (I was not in the mood to fight them to eat what we were having). DIDN'T WORK. Spencer spent half of dinner in his room because he didn't want to eat. (NOTE to child: Not smart! If you're not going to eat something I know you like, you're stuck with the big people food.) After dinner--with no dessert I figured we could play outside for a bit before we have the lesson. Holy Cow!!! Can you say double meltdown (and I'm not even talking about mommy and daddy, although that could have happened tonight as well). Both boys ended up out of their minds crying over goodness knows what. I will spare the details, other than to say that Spencer was in bed at 6:20 and Cameron followed a few short minutes later. We were lucky to get jammies on and teeth brushed let alone a nice, feel-good lesson and song.
We had better get points in heaven for the desire to do all the good stuff we're supposed to.
You will definitely get points! No worries! And we have experienced the SAME thing not only on Monday nights....but every other night as well!
ReplyDeleteI hope we do get points for trying! We have definitely had those kind of FHE nights where you wonder if you're doing any good at all.
ReplyDeleteSounds a little like our family. I have thrown the scriptures down before and yelled "No more reading the scriptures". Yeah...I am hoping for points for good thoughts. You are a great mom though.
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