The Blank Page

Well, I finally made some progress on the set up of CEO of My New Life.  I can't help but think it shouldn't have taken this much time to get this far, I still feel disorganized in my thoughts, the layout isn't really right and blah, blah, blah...

This thought takes me back to yesterday morning when I told Olivia that we had to get moving or we were going to be late for ballet class.  She wound up really fast, stomped her feet and ran out of the room yelling, "I am not going to ballet today".  I responded "Yes, you are going to ballet.  You wanted to take these classes and you will finish the sessions..."  As she continued to fight, I figured there must be something else going on here, so I knealt down in front of her, took her hands and asked, "Why don't you want to go today? You seemed to really be enjoying your class."  That's when she told me in her tinyest little 5 year old voice, "I'm not so good at some of the things we are doing. I don't think I"m ever going to get them right."

I took a moment to think, then I explained to her that there will always be things that come easier to us than others.  Mommy has lots of things that aren't as easy as some other things. When we get to the not so easy stuff we should first smile and then do our very best.  When finished, say to ourself "good job today". Even if it takes, 5, 10, 20...100 times to get it right.  You see what we say in our head, affects what we do.  With that, she got all excited and says, "You mean my BRAIN tells my BODY what to do?!  I am going to tell my body to dance, dance, dance."  Then she jumps up, wiggles her little butt, and gets her shoes on.

As a parent, we can learn a lot from the interactions with our children.  I may not be an expert at this blogging stuff, but tonight I smile and tell myself, "good job today" and I will be happy that my page isn't blank anymore.