HONEST MOTHER, FOLKS!

"IF you want TV and Lunch, you gotta clean it up, ya gotta clean it up, ya gotta clean it up!"-said in my High School Musical singing voice

I posted in a FB mommies group this morning about my "Honest Mommy Moment," about how the struggle is real. I feel, for the sake of portraying something that seems "oh too good to be true," or the "the perfect life," I shall post my 'post' here as well:

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HONEST Mommy Moment: I am TRYING to be a "good" Mommy today to the 5, so I gathered them all (struggled) this beautiful morning, family meeting style, went over the family rules like 10x in my loudest voice b/c they were SO loud (struggled) then we gathered our hands to pray (stuggled) b4 our day, and it went like this:
"I am trying to FREAKING PRAY HERE!..... JESUS we need you!!!" yada yada yada.... 

Yup, i did have to laugh at myself after that. oops.

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YES, I yelled "FREAKING" at the top of my lungs, in my childrens presence, as we sat (hand in hand) on the carpet in a circle. Even Gideon looked at me like, "This lady is gonna loose her cookies... and if she does, i'll eat 'em!" And the loudness in my voice did not quit while my eyes were (semi) closed as I shouted out to Jesus that "WE NEED HIM or ELSE!!!" It wasn't my best prayer, but boy oh boy it was honest, short, and raw baby. RAW. Prayer over, went through the house rules AGAIN, then we went on our way. I have been trying to do a daily schedule, but we just got back from vacation camping, and we have 12 people coming over tonight for a meeting, and my house is a semi mess, sooo I threw the schedule out today and HOPED against all hope that MAYBE they would play nice so I could clean and get ready. Well, guesssss wha??, It was a struggle. For about an hour straight someone was crying. I think maybe I circled my house like 100x... So I went into my "coping zone" and baked a butt load of bread. Not just any bread, FANCY bread. Oozing with chocolate and butter and butter and oh buttttttteeeerrrrrr. And guess what? They played NICE, and TOGETHER for like an HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOLKS, an hour. That is gold. 

So please, never think someones life if better, or more perfect, or never without "freaking moments," cuz we allllllllllll are in a fallen world where we allllllllll sin. ((thats why we need Jesus))

So in Elsa's famous words, "Let it go." Let the image of perfection that you are striving for, GO, out the door! And bake some bread, or if you cant bake bread, just go eat some butter... or chocolate... or buttered chocolate.

-Signed HONEST MOTHER, FOLKS!