It started out beautifully 😉
I’ll spare you all the details, but you know how it is when all the little things go wrong and it just seems to magnify your life way out of proportion?
(This was pretty much the experience all the way home…(did I mention it was a 3-hour drive? I wish I could include the sound.)
It’s 95 degrees and so humid the air drips. Driving a van. Remember how I’m such a scatter brain? This one takes the cake.
My sweet little children are just melting on the way to the funeral home. I keep lamenting that we don’t have rear air. My dad is driving. AFTER, and only after we’ve endured 2 days of miserable heat, in and out of the hot van, and we’re on the way home and the sun has started going down, giving us the first moment of relief, I called my hubby and when I mentioned how miserable the kids had been without air in the back he says,
“Kelly, what do you mean there’s no rear air? Is it broken?”
Yes, our van has rear air. (In my defense, this is our first summer in this van, and I hardly ever drive it, which makes me oblivious to all the “controls”…OK, I know, that’s a ridiculous excuse. I wanted to cry.
Anyway, kids losing clothes, rushing to get dressed at someone else’s house (we stayed overnight), exhaustion because the baby hardly slept in a strange place, trying to visit with friends and relatives while mentally tracking where all my children were….
I just came home wishing I had a calmer disposition; a gentler spirit, and a more cavalier attitude.
And the kids were GREAT. It wasn’t them; it was me. Just letting stress affect me…more inside than out, really, but stress all the same.
So today, we’ll pick up the pieces, unpack, and laugh together….I hope.
Here are a few pics…
A good book is all she needs!
This is the typical pair. Ashton is the comedian, and Alexa is his constantly-adoring audience. I have to separate them for chores and meals because they laugh so much they never get anything done together!
Avi is why we don’t have a television 😉
Mallie Eden: She sang a song, ONE song all the way home. It was:
“Granna, granna, granna, granna, granna, granna”
That’s what she calls my Mom. It was sweet. For the first 30 minutes.
Fixing hair…assembly line.
16 comments
oh, my, am I glad I wasn’t in your shoes, because I would most likely have reacted the same way!
But you have to admit, the punch line about the van having rear air after all was just the littlest bit funny. At least, it will be some day, right? Your children are lovely.
Oh, dear. That sounds SO.LIKE.ME!!!
That is something I would do. Yep. Too bad we don’t have ____ – what? We do! *gulp*
My boys are taking turns napping today . . . when’s my nap? LOL
Enjoyed the pictures. We will all be sanctified one day! 🙂
Ashley
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I am soooo like that! I let stress just eat me up and it takes prisoners, too! Thanks for the laughs, though!
Hugs,
Carmen
I never realized just how much Avi looks like YOU!
There is such a thing as too caviler as well. I have been accused of such things so I’m not sure what I would have done in your situation. My hubby would have probably reacted as you did and I would have gotten frustrated with him and then none of us would be the least bit happy. lol Amazing how God puts us together to learn. How smart! tee-hee
I’m so sorry about your uncle’s death and your stressful experience. Bless your hearts! I doubt I would have handled the situation better. I would have probably topped it off with tears.
The thumb-sucker cracks me up. My friends’ little girl does her creative thumb-sucking with her stuffed bunny’s ears in between her thumbs and rubs the ears against her nose.
Thanks for sharing the pictures of your beautiful kids. I love how you did the B&W pics!
Whew– I thought that I was the ONLY one.
Having one of “those” days myself.
Thank you for being so transparent.
Your honesty encourages me to:
1) stop
2) repent
3) make things better
Thank you for your ministry!!
Shelly
Reading through your blog, the one thing I don’t understand is why you must be “against” feminism? As I understand it, feminism can mean many things to many different people, and you, as a woman, are in a way a feminist yourself, by publishing your thoughts on God and family, etc. Just as I read the Bible, I urge you to read the writings of feminist bell hooks. Some of us don’t believe that feminism must be in contradiction to Christianity. Ms. hook’s work is exemplary of a view that is loving and encompassing. I especially recommend her book, “Feminism is For Everyone”. Even if you only read it to educate yourself about “the enemy”.
My regards,
KH
the girl,
I’m against anything that destroys the family, which is the God-ordained, sacred institution on which the entire society rests.
Feminism quickly bled out beyond simply protecting women from abusive forces; “equality”, which is what every feminists claims to fight for, would be great if it still respected and gaurded the complimentary roles of men and women. It mostly does not.
That’s why I’m against it.
I’m not against women being intelligent, or writing on a blog, or making money, or influencing the world. That’s one of the biggest things feminists don’t understand. They think that anti-feminism means women can’t be anything.
I blog here to say the contrary. God has so created our special roles that we can be a lot more than where the feminists have boxed us in.
Jesus liberated women, truly and fully. By embracing my role as keeper of our home, there is no end to the opportunities, the freedoms, and the influence God provides. And that is liberation.
A woman married to a Christian man who understands the value of a virtuous woman, need not join the battlecry of the feminists. She is valued and lifted above the noise. Feminism doesn’t bring women to where they need to be; an understanding of our Creator and His design does.
Wow great response there!
I see your point. There is no need to assign yourself a label or “join a movement” to be a “liberated” woman. Just a couple of questions. First, when you describe or refer to “feminists” or “feminism” in this blog, are you referring to 1st, 2nd or 3rd wave feminism? Second, how and where did you first learn (and continue to learn) about feminism? And finally, why, if the title of your blog is “Families Against Feminism” are there so few articles on feminism. It seems to me like a more apt title would be something geared more toward your positive views of children and motherhood.
I ask you in sincerity, and appreciate your response thus far.
Regards.
thegirl,
Good questions…
The waves of feminism prove my often-made point of how a slippery slope works. The third wave is merely an extension of what started in the first. I’m sure there were some great intentions and truly sincere women along the way, but now the damaging tenets of feminism are so prevalent, that most feminists, even “Christian” ones, can’t recognize it.
That is precisely why I started this blog…to talk to Christian women about the negative effects feminism is having on the family and home.
I blog mostly about women and children because that is where I see feminism has hit the hardest, and that institution is primarily the hub of all other domains of life. (Karl Marx knew this and even stated that it would be necessary to change the mind of women in order to dismantle the family.)
(Although reading through my other posts, I think you’ll find plenty of other topics.)
Feminism has its tentacles into every part of our lives. If it were merely a term that meant I believed a woman should not be beaten by her husband, or treated in an otherwise harsh way, I’d call myself a feminist.
But the term has taken on so much more…”learning” about feminism is an interesting question…once a thinking person is familiar with the feminists agenda, she has only to observe the snowball effects of her society to learn about the negative consequences. I’d say I’ve mostly learned about it from living in it.
It may be a good time to revisit the topic, for new readers who don’t really know why and how I came to believe the way I do…posting in progress 😉
I appreciate your questioning…
i think thearticles written about family and such show that this blog is against feminism. no further explanation is needed if you read them 🙂
Word Warrior,
Again, my appreciation. I look forward to your new post. In full disclosure, I am thinking about my own identity as a woman and whether or not “feminism” fits into that identity.
What I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE about your blog is that you are REAL with us! Thank you! We ALL have bad days that we wish we could do over. Thanks for NOT pretending that you don’t have those, too.
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