I was actually looking forward to this morning. Can you believe it? Looking forward to a Monday morning? Sadly, it was because all of my kids would be in school and the house would be quiet. We had plenty of not quiet this weekend. Life with Catherine and Thomas is like Jekyll and Hyde. One minute they are the best of friends and the next all heck is breaking loose. Yesterday on an hour long car ride I had to pull the vehicle over TWICE in order to deal with them. Not okay. And then there is Robert, who is, my husband assures me, behaving like a typical male teen. His brain has clearly left him and he is simply not in any way, shape, or form functioning like a human with common sense. It's tough...in many ways one of the toughest things I've dealt with in a long time. The thing is, he's a pretty good kid and the stuff he's pulling are generally small things. We explain to him though, if we can't trust him in the small things how can we trust him in bigger things. I know that we are certainly not the first parents to deal with this and I'm grateful for Andrew's perspective into teenagers.
For now, however, I am enjoying the quiet and solitude of the day. With Dad's precarious health, I know that at any moment, life could turn into a tailspin, and I've learned to appreciate the calm for however long it might last.
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