Life lessons learned at the ball park.

I know this is just the beginning of many years of mother-spectator sports, but I have really had fun watching Dallin play t-ball this spring. What genuine, real-life entertainment it is to watch these 5 year old boys...not to mention their parents. Isn't it fun to watch the parenting styles of different people? Not that one way is better than the other. I just find it interesting to watch how some parents interact with and display their frustrations with their children. Now, in no way am I critisizing or saying that I am the model mother,(ask my neighbors who can probably hear me yelling from across the street at times- I'm not even close) but somedays when you're are feeling frustrated and thinking, "Really, this is not the kind of mom I always thought I would be" it is just nice to sit back and see that you are not the only mother who may lose her cool at times. (even in grocery store aisles like you promised yourself you never would) It's nice to think you know, maybe I am not doing that bad of a job. Even though we may not be living the "ideal" dream of the kind of mothers we thought we would be....this whole mom thing sometimes turns out to be harder that we dreamed it would be too. So, although there are many things I really need to work on as a mother, life goes by too quickly to not enjoy every minute and feel we are not living up to the notions that we have to be perfect. So, I have really been trying to relax! Give myself some slack! Celebrate the very, very small accomplishments throughout the day, instead of dwelling on all of the things that have in the past drug me down.