Keeping the Home by Lori Seaborg
Posted in On Being a Mom and a Wife
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These holidays just do not have to be perfect....these holiday plans do not have to be perfect...I do not have to be perfect...
I am chanting to myself, so I will (hopefully) remember that I , and my holiday plans, do not have to be perfect.
All my St. Nicholas Day plans, the ones I laid out yesterday, went astray. Or awry. Whatever word best draws a mental picture of plans not working out like they should.
But, you know what? I've leared that as long as I tell myself that the day does not have to perfect, and as long as I allow my children and my husband to be imperfect (okay, fine...me, too), I am happy with the day. But if I dwell on all that went wrong (burnt cookies, extra errands, no brown sugar....), the day was ruined and I am glum.
Things are going to often go astray and awry in a house filled with little kids. But kids could care less about that.
What they will remember -- watch out, now, you know what I'm going to say -- is our attitude, whether it be happy or grumpy.
I'm definitely not speaking from a throne here. I was a grumpy perfectionist mama earlier today. It was that thought, the one I just mentioned - that kids remember our attitudes - that straightened me up.
We salvaged our St. Nicholas Day by making chocolate chip cookies instead of a Swedish delicacy, by reading Santa Claus, Are You For Real? book (see the left column for a photo of the book and a link to see it), and by eating pizza instead of having a St. Nick tea.
And our kids are putting out their shoes tonight for St. Nicholas to fill with goodies instead of last night. I think St. Nicholas will still come tonight.
I guess I'd better go help him do that ......
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