Snub your mom

Ok so I was watching this really cool show Storage Wars, and this commercial came on. Usually I tune out commercials but the whole thing for some reason caught my attention. it was for a video game (insert eye roll and deep sigh here) but the whole commercial was watching these older ladies watch the game being played and catching their repulsion at the game. Then the website link is something like your mother will hate this .com
REALLY! I'm not making this up. The whole thing was banking on getting people to buy this because your mother wont like it. Ok so just so we're clear on this... Your mother is the lady that carried you around in her body, got stretch marks, puked, and got her whole body whacked out, then went through HOURS of pain pushing you out of said body (which never goes back to the same shape it was before) then she got up ever 3 hours or so (the equivalent of torture)feeding you and wiping up your poop and spit up. This is the lady you are going to make a purchase and then spend hours playing just to piss her off? REALLY?
What does the Bible say about this?

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 19:26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.

Proverbs 20:20 If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

 

That is pretty tough, but dude that's your momma. Maybe I am taking this commercial a little too personally being a mom. Especially a mom with boys that I know will play video games. What if this was against black people? and the website link was black people will hate this .com? Or what if it was against teachers? there would be groups all over this raising a racket over all this. But a website against mothers... and not one person says something? Why the heck is that? Where are the moms that say NOT COOL? Here I guess. Do you really want to be eaten by vultures? That's not a cool way to go. It's not like getting eaten by a shark or Trampled on by a pack of NFL players. And why would you want to hurt your mom? Ok rant over. Now I want to watch the commercial again and get the website so I can write them and complain, I'll let you know how it goes.

Shocking Thought for the Day:

today seven years ago was my last childless day on earth. Inside of me was a baby boy who would change my life forever, and we named him Isaac.

Do you remember the day before Isaacs birth? What were you doing? Did you know me then?
What about the Night Before your first child was born? What was it like? How did your life change?

Parenting... a tag team sport

Parenting is a tag team sport. I am more convinced of that this week than ever. We have three small children. (6,5, and 11.5 months) We have been helping my sister in law and her boyfriend out by watching their two children in the evenings while they work, I have a fledgling fudge business, then a friends mother passed and I have been watching their small son while they make arrangements. Meanwhile Bobby is working crazy hours for this house that is being featured on Extreme Makeover Home Edition. On top of all of this, just to make life fun, Bobby wasn't feeling well today so when he wasn't working or sleeping he was laying on the couch looking pitiful. Then it happened. I should have seen it coming. All the signs were there. I'm a mom for goodness sakes. I've been down this road more times that I can count. I babysit kids who have a yucky cough and a runny nose and what happens? I now have a baby with a fever, runny nose, and what sounds to be a sore throat.
Normally this would stress me out and then I would tag Bobby. We have been doing this since the day Isaac was born. I go go go till I can't go any more than I tag him in and he is strong and does the job while I rest. This system has worked with our "deal" (I clean up poopy diapers, he handles all throw up), with migraines, heart surgeries, kids hospital stays, even when Chloe was in the NICU for a week. When I couldn't take it, he jumped in. The nurses said that's never happened before, a father staying alone over night with a preemie. Being able to fully count on him is such a blessing. I can not even tell you how much.
Now he's sick and gone, the baby is sick and I have more fudge orders than I can shake a stick at. Plus I've run out of containers. My back aches and I can't get to the bottom of the clothes pile.
Now would be when I would tag Bobby. He'd jump in, help clean he house, tame the laundry, find me containers, and nurse the baby while I got some sleep. Real sleep. He would do it all with the kids laughing and the baby well on the mend. He would deny all that of course but it's true because it;s happened more times than I can count.
So my thinking is: How the heck do parents do it either alone or where they operate as individuals and not as a tag team? I mean if you look at the Bible you can see something interesting. God instituted the leave and cleave command and then to enforce it He said to be fruitful and multiply. Yeah sure, ok it was to to help populate the earth, but by having kids you are kinda forced to cleave. You have to work together and work through things. There's a verse that talks about how if one man does something he can do so much and you would think that two would be able to do twice as much but it's not true. They are able to do so much more. It takes two baby.... and I am defiantly in need of my better half.

Luke and the convo in my head

Luke 6:40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Ok so I'm sure no one else has ever had this convo in their head as a parent after reading something or talking to someone. "Oh crap, I am totally going to screw my kids up! Why the heck did God give me these little people that I can ruin???" "Relax, you aren't going to ruin them." "Relax? RELAX?!? How can I relax? Did you read that passage? it says that the kids when they are fully trained will be like me!!! ME?!? I'm a basket case, why the heck do I want them to be like me, I want them to be better than me" "But Self, that is what the verse says, they will be like me." Really? do we really want them to be like me? I mean look at me I'm holding a whole conversation in my head."  "Good point....ok so the only other option is to freak out." "my sentiments exactly.'' FREAK OUT!!!!!!

Yeah I bet you have never done that before. Well I have, and the other day at the home school meeting was no exception. I have heard this verse before, but never really thought about it. Now after my freak out moment, (Praise God they only last for a second) I kinda can see where this would be a good, albeit hard thing.

So the kids, my disciples are not above me. They have to listen, obey and respect me. When I am teaching they can't contradict what I am saying or be rude, that being said, how did Jesus teach his disciples? Through lectures, lessons, and the occasional scolding, true. But He taught through example. He served his disciples and then called them to go and do likewise. He was the perfect model. Then he made me a mother and said here ya go, make disciples. I read every book I could, I have talked to countless godly women who are farther in the parenting road than I am, and yet I read this and I thought it was like I saw first through a window dimly but now I can see it clearly. Motherhood is what I have been called to do and these three children are my mission field first and foremost, and I have to teach by example. I HAVE to have a close walk with the Lord and I have to rely completely on Him because I won't get to see how well I'm doing until it's too late and one day someone will say, They act just like their Momma, and I will have to take a long hard look at their lives and THEN I can see if I did a good job with the mission field God gave me.

It was a eye opening moment for me. One that I think will focus my attention off of the temporary and on to my children's eternal purpose. Because like it or not, I'm it. I can teach and teach and try and try to make them better than me but Luke said they will be like me. Scary thought isn't it? But it's also very humbleing at the same time. I have to work on me and be a better person in regards to my walk with Christ , because we all know "Monkey see Monkey do" 

Question: What verse has ever made you freak out just by reading it?