One week ago I folded a basket of towels. Fresh from the dryer and super soft. They even had that snuggle smell. As one of my wonderful kids went upstairs, I won't say which, they were asked to take the basket with them and put the ten towels in the linen closet. Please and thank you. Exactly one week later the same basket with the same towels still in it, is in the exact same position beside the bathroom door where it was left.
If you have kids then you know patience is the number one thing necessary to raise them. Love comes a close second...but not too close. From the second they are born children test the one thing we can never have enough of. Starting with sleepless nights then moving on to the terrible twos and the tyrant threes, we struggle to keep our tempers when we have walked on one too many lego pieces and found crayon marks on the newly painted wall. It isn't just you....it's all of us.
Once school starts we believe our patience will return but then it's schedules and trying to get out the door at the right time. Getting our little angels to eat cereal for breakfast when they absolutely must have toast with the crust cut off is a mind-numbing crisis we face almost daily. All the while we are figuring out what to tell our boss as we arrive late for work again instead of screaming "get in the car" like we really want to be doing.
The teenage years, as we are finding out, put those other complaints to shame. "In a minute" is every thirteen to eighteen-year-olds favorite phrase. But it doesn't mean what you think. Nope, it actually means "when I get around to it but certainly not this week." Accepting that is the biggest test of patience. And to be honest, both John and I are failing....badly.
Since we still have quite a few years before we are empty nesters maybe we need to take up yoga or meditation. Something calming and relaxing for the long road ahead.
Too bad we don't have the patience left for either one of them!
Ang
**FYI the towels have finally made it to the closet. Who put them there is anyone's guess 🙂**
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