The Competition

Oh the folks suffering from a competitive nature. The question is, do you separate out to those that are suffering from a feeling of disconnect that causes this competitive streak? Or do you make everyone else involved suffer by having to deal with it? When talking, pointing it out, and trying to put a stop to it fail miserably time and time again.....how do you deal with it? On one hand you are causing your self hassle by having to duplicate EVERY event. OR you are making everyone else miserable that shouldn't HAVE to deal with it. One would hope that eventually that personal personal awareness would kick in....however there are people in this world that are "perfect". They never do wrong. Then what? This all makes sense in my mind, and maybe in this wording it is not clear to everyone else....so long story short. How do you deal with an insecure Grandmother of your child that feels the need to one up and take claim to things she was not involved in settings like Holidays and Birthdays...in front of a ton of people that are in no way personally connected to her. When this woman can do no wrong. When common courtesy is non existent and she actually has the audacity to "demand" the child from a parent. What do you do? (short of just cutting her out...that will never happen)

Lifes "Surprises"

Some surprises are good, some are bad, and some things shouldn't be a surprise.  Disappointment only comes when you allow it, so why allow it?  Life can be an experience for the better or worse.  As long as you don't allow your heart to be hurt by things that SHOULDN'T surprise you, you will be okay.  You can't change people, or events.  You can't stop the bad, or the inevitable.  The only thing you CAN do, is have control over how you let things effect your life, for good or bad.  Only focus on what you can control, the rest just needs to be shrugged off, and forgotten.  If it's not beneficial to you, what impact could it possibly hold that gives you reason to allow YOURSELF unhappiness?  Hold on to what really matters.

The Love of a Mother

Growing up I never understood how my parents felt. As a kid you don't have the ability to grasp that your parents are not pillars of strength that can handle it all. Looking back on it all I don't know how my parents made it through the things my siblings and I said and did without ending up in the hospital! The CONSTANT worry and unfathomable love you have for your kids is truly an incredible experience. (not to mention it gives a whole new respect and understanding for my own parents!) Now I can say that I know why they did things a certain way, now I get why they made life "completely miserable" and were so "unfair!". As a parent you aren't doing your job right if your kids don't hate you at some point in their childhood!