It is hard to be 14 and social.
It is even harder when parents decide to cut the social part of life so that "business" around home can get done.
But if it is hard to be a 14 year old under these circumstances, it is even harder being the parent.
In all honesty as a mom, I want for her to have it all. Should I let her have it all.... No.
In all honesty, I don't want to punish my children. Should I, to help teach them from right and wrong and hopefully direct them in the way to becoming the kind of people we pray they will be... Yes.
So what do I do to cope, I try to find humor in the struggles and heartache of being a parent. Unfortunately, my sense of humor is totally lost on my oldest and sometimes my other children. But what is a mom to do? I am trying to not go crazy. I really don't want my children to have to take me on a road trip somewhere quiet, peaceful, where the bars on the windows are to only keep people from breaking in (**wink, wink**). The place where I can rest, and maybe learn to stop doing the chicken dance.
So, I find myself tonight, remembering the Veggie Tales song that goes...
God is bigger than the boogie man, He is bigger than Godzilla and the monsters on tv...and He's looking out for you and me.
So as Fun Mom comes upstairs, obviously very perturbed with me and won't look me in the eye, my silly side starts singing. (I admit all very quietly and not within her earshot.)
God is bigger than my teen-ager, He is bigger than the monster in my basement, God is bigger than hormones and He is watching out for you and me! !
