Well, I woke up at 3am last night thinking about what a complainer I am. I nearly popped right out of bed to come apologize to the world about my negative comment on my last post, but instead I laid there for a couple of hours hoping to get back to sleep. Though Friday was a tough day, I probably shouldn't have announced my weariness and what a "terrible" time I had with the kids. My attitude stinks. Here's the crazy thing. When I was confronted with what a negative complainer I am, my first reaction was to blame someone or something. Usually I just chalk it all up to my crazy kids and lack of sleep, but this time I shared a little of the love with Nathan. Aren't I wonderful. All of this after I told Shannon, along with a group of lovely women how best to love their husbands and have joy in their marriages. If that isn't messed up, I don't know what is. What's hard for me to believe is that the Lord thinks I AM wonderful.
On another note, the piano tuner will be here soon. He scares me a bit. He LOVES pianos and wants us to get ours tuned every 6 months. I'm not sure if that's normal, but we hardly play ours and don't want to pay to get it tuned that often. So I told him to just call me once a year. I think that upset him because I don't love the piano as much as I should. So he always seems a little mad at me. Makes me nervous. Oh well, we'll be fine.
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EDIT:
Okay folks, I should just stop talking/blogging. I keep saying things I later regret. My piano tuner is a sweet old man. I stink. I'm really glad the Lord isn't just leaving me there in my stinkiness. He shows it to me every day. That's actually a really wonderful thing, though not fun. Thanks for bearing with me and reading my blog anyway, and leaving encouraging comments. :)
3 comments:
Amanda! Let me say that when you have been blogging your thoughts lately that I have been thinking how great it is that you are so transparently real about raising children. It has got to be the most difficult time of life in so many ways and I for one am thrilled that you have a blog to be able to let out your frustrations from time to time. I love you and think you are doing a great job! (By the way, don't let my comment take away from anything that God might be wanting you to work through. . .) :-)
Love you!
We all have bad days! Sometimes I get frustrated by all the dust and the overwhleming amount of things to do and I only have one.....
I think it's great that you share the challenges your facing and what He is teaching you through them!
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