Early Monday Musings
The past several weeks have left most of us at home with nowhere to go. The weather hasn’t been great, the sky has been overwhelmingly gray and it has created the perfect petri dish for stress to fester. Yesterday, we were all stressed out as we finally finished my daughter’s fake lego Titanic…the pieces were tiny, one wrong move and a huge chunk would fall inside the boat without anyway to fish it out, etc. Let’s just say that steam may have been coming out of my ears instead of the stacks on the boat! But even in the moments of my stress, I am able to see what we have accomplished. JB and I worked hard on and off to sort tiny pieces and fit them on that damn boat. While the design itself may have been sink-worthy, I am really proud of the hard work she put into it even though every session lead to a lot of frustration. Sometimes the frustration lead to us not working on it for months at a time. Bit by bit, we got through it. Thank goodness it is now finished. We learned that we bond better over less stressful activities.
And on the other side of it all, I am able to see our struggles and our triumphs clearly. My gratitude ties into that directly. I am grateful that we struggle and that we struggle together. I am grateful that I can pull myself together after the fact and apologize to my child when I know I have lost my temper. I am grateful that she has the ability to understand where my frustrations stem from. I am grateful that she can see that none of us are perfect. I am grateful that we have time to spend together. I am grateful that we do ‘projects’ together. I am grateful that the Titanic project is over with. I am grateful for adhesive spray (can’t wait to spray that boat down). I am grateful that we are both overjoyed that we don’t have to work on it anymore. I am grateful that no fake legos were eaten by the dogs.