blogging

this is supposed to be like a journal. Since no one reads my blogs I can get a bit personal. I am a mother who worked really hard to raise the kids right. Well, to the ability that I had. Apparently I fell far short! I had to lower my expectations for some and now I am able to accept their choices and appreciate it when they can be responsible adults. I read a great article in the Ensign called To Perfection. I wanted to raise them perfectly and have a perfect marriage. Kind of hard to do when we are all imperfect beings. Go read the article and you'll see what I mean. In this race of life to eternal life, we are only racing ourselves and no one else. There are many versions of "success". For example, one of my children actually has held a job for more than 3 months. He checks in to work on time (most of the time) and actually rushes to get there if he gets up late. He saved his own money to buy a laptop. I don't like what he uses it for but still he disciplined himself to save the cash for it! That's HUGE for him!!! Most of us assume this is Responsibility 101. For this child, he had to do the below 100 level courses just to get up to par after having been out of high school for more than 8 years! But for him, when I don't compare him to other persons his age, he is doing well. In comparison with who he was and who he is now, we are actually moving forward in life!

I will go on about the other kids on a subsequent blog