I think all parents like to think of themselves as real life super heroes, to and for their children. Truth is most of them do not and, can not wear ‘capes’. Another truth, I think you certainly can and do.
May sound hokey but, if you were an outsider reading about how you have managed and navigated parenting, you too would be thinking and agreeing with me.
If you promise not to tell, I am not! But I am rather good, very good at calling it as it is. And you are a superb mother, and your sweet boys are so blessed.
How are you not kind? You go out of your way to make me, a total stranger, feel better. And then those recipes you take time to make for your sons so they can eat properly. Kind and a wonderful cook, too!
I think you should give yourself a break. We all think we messed up at certain times on different occasions. 3 am is a bad time to start spinning those wheels even though we can't help it. In the normal conduct of business, as one of my therapists would put it, we all manage to get through. I am sure your two boys will do just fine. How can they not given what a fine person you are? I still have not moved to Israel, but I keep advocating for it. Maybe at 83 I will make the move. In the meantime I am learning to stick to my guns and value the things I value even when I see them being blistered and battered. I watched the movie My Fair Lady yesterday on tv and loved the part where Rex Harrison was complaining about Eliza's "English" while listing the glories of the English language. Somehow that little piece of a song reminded me of my love of literature even if the British PM is helping ruin that very England and their English. So please give yourself a break, do what you can with your insurance policies but don't beat up on yourself or your husband. You sound like great people. And your boys must be something. You got it right about Shavuot!
Thank you for your support. I know I am not the only parent who obsesses about things when it comes to their children. So many of us never feel enough is enough.
I don't know if we are great. But we try our best, then review and try again.
I love My Fair Lady and what Starmer and his ilk are doing to England is an abomination.
We love Shavuot in my home especially my son who makes his famous cheesecake.
I think you might like this poem by Anthony Hecht called "It Out-Herod's Herod. Pray You, Avoid It" . It speaks to all of us who worry and wonder at 3 am. The link is as follows: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49087/it-out-herods-herod-pray-you-avoid-it. He was one of America's finest poets in the second half of the 20th century.
I think all parents like to think of themselves as real life super heroes, to and for their children. Truth is most of them do not and, can not wear ‘capes’. Another truth, I think you certainly can and do.
May sound hokey but, if you were an outsider reading about how you have managed and navigated parenting, you too would be thinking and agreeing with me.
You are very kind. Thank you.
If you promise not to tell, I am not! But I am rather good, very good at calling it as it is. And you are a superb mother, and your sweet boys are so blessed.
How are you not kind? You go out of your way to make me, a total stranger, feel better. And then those recipes you take time to make for your sons so they can eat properly. Kind and a wonderful cook, too!
That is very kind, of you.
Just one fellow cranky ‘ol gal to another 💕!
I think you should give yourself a break. We all think we messed up at certain times on different occasions. 3 am is a bad time to start spinning those wheels even though we can't help it. In the normal conduct of business, as one of my therapists would put it, we all manage to get through. I am sure your two boys will do just fine. How can they not given what a fine person you are? I still have not moved to Israel, but I keep advocating for it. Maybe at 83 I will make the move. In the meantime I am learning to stick to my guns and value the things I value even when I see them being blistered and battered. I watched the movie My Fair Lady yesterday on tv and loved the part where Rex Harrison was complaining about Eliza's "English" while listing the glories of the English language. Somehow that little piece of a song reminded me of my love of literature even if the British PM is helping ruin that very England and their English. So please give yourself a break, do what you can with your insurance policies but don't beat up on yourself or your husband. You sound like great people. And your boys must be something. You got it right about Shavuot!
Thank you for your support. I know I am not the only parent who obsesses about things when it comes to their children. So many of us never feel enough is enough.
I don't know if we are great. But we try our best, then review and try again.
I love My Fair Lady and what Starmer and his ilk are doing to England is an abomination.
We love Shavuot in my home especially my son who makes his famous cheesecake.
I think you might like this poem by Anthony Hecht called "It Out-Herod's Herod. Pray You, Avoid It" . It speaks to all of us who worry and wonder at 3 am. The link is as follows: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49087/it-out-herods-herod-pray-you-avoid-it. He was one of America's finest poets in the second half of the 20th century.
It made me cry.