Recent Events

There have been some horrible news stories lately...like most news stories are, unfortunately.  Two of which I'm referring to, ended horribly wrong for two little kids, who were taken from this earth far too soon by their own family members.  And like most people, I hear these stories and think, "what a sick and twisted world we live in, but there isn't much I can do except to pray for the families."  And so I rehash the stories over and over in my brain and wonder how something like this could happen and too bad I can't make a huge difference in the world so stories like this would stop.

And then it hit me.  I do have the power to change "the world." Maybe just a small part of it, but what if we all just went back to practicing the golden rules.  What if we all treated everyone we came into contact with the way we would like to be treated in return?  Including those closest to us, the ones we don't usually watch what we say too or how we say it.  The ones who get us at the end of the day when we are tired, crabby, etc., etc.  The ones who have to deal with us when we are sick and aren't "ourselves." 

My sad confession time, my (almost) 15 month old has heard me apologize to him on several occasions for losing my patience with him as he squirmed and was uncooperative for a diaper change because I was running late.  Is it his fault I chose to hit the snooze button?  No, but I sure made it seem like it was.  So instead of having to apologize to him...why not just accept the responsibility for my actions going into the diaper change and accept that I will be late for....

Character is what we do when no one is watching.  Who is your "no one?"  Gus and Mitchell are just a few of mine.  I want to be the wife and mom to them that others looking in see (you know, how we appear in public.)  Because I do believe that small things matter.  The small things add up to be big things.  And if we are treating "our" people the way they should be treated, the cycle continues outside of our homes.