In the interest of fair reporting...

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children.  Now I have seven children and only one theory:  Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.-Kate Samperi

Wasn't it just yesterday I posted about how great it was to be a mother??  The one where I was completely sappy concerning the joys of motherhood and how grateful I am to have this time with my children-I swear that was just yesterday!

Yea, I think it was, and didn't I  mentioned all the  things that I had learned since becoming a mother?

 I think I forgot one.  Restraint.  Yup, today I realized that I have learned to restrain myself from pulling a "Joseph's brothers act" and selling my children to the first band of Egyptians riding by.  Then again, maybe I wouldn't have had such restraint had an actual band of Egyptians passed by...

Well, either way I still have all my children with me in spite of them being uncooperative, argumentative, demanding and in all other ways behaving like CHILDREN today. (can you imagine? Children behaving like children.  Really!).  Well, lest you erroneously  think that we are just one happy flowery bundle of love all. the. time. around here, allow me to enlighten you.   Today I felt like this little guy.

I was having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.* And the children seemed to be having one too.  We were quite the group today.  We let  all our uglies and undesirables hang out today.  Not anyone's finest hour.  But thankfully the day is almost over and soon I will resemble this woman.

Tomorrow is a fresh new day and we will all get a fresh new start.  A clean slate.  A do-over.  Hallelujah!


Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning.  Great is Your faithfulness-Lamentations 3:22-23

I, for one, am glad we have a new chance with each sunrise.   Love, after all, does cover a multitude of "uglies".  And we do all love each other, even when none of us, myself included, are exhibiting behavior deserving of love. Sometimes that's when we need  love the most-even though it seems what we need is a kick in the...well, anyway, that's why we need to be continuously filled with God's perfect unconditional love to pour out on one another.  Then we can love each other in spite of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days.  

Sometimes things just do not go as planned, or as desired, or as anything resembling acceptable.  But "mom says some days are like that, even in Australia".*

Thanks for reading

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*The book quotes and little boy pic. come from this book.  An excellent children's book about bad days.