There are days that I'm on my "A game" and manage to pull off dinner prep, homework assistance, taxi service, medical secretary and just general fun person to be around in those crazy few hours after school.
Today wasn't one of them. Not even close.
I missed the memo about parkour now starting later and therefore was gone on my first dance/parkour taxi run for over an hour instead of 30 minutes. An important phone call I needed to take came in during the short time I was home between dance/parkour taxi runs and left dinner prep a mess of half chopped veggies and raw chicken that didn't make it into the oven.
Feeling stressed about how the evening was unraveling, I pulled this one aside and offered to pay her a bit to at least help her younger siblings get homework done while I was on the second taxi run.
She smiled at me and said, "Don't worry about paying me Mama, besides, I already helped all the elementary kids get their math done. And right now I'll bake some muffins for tomorrow's breakfast."
I may have cried some tears of gratitude. God has blessed Ian and I with some amazing young humans.
And she's a pretty great leader of the pack.
Today wasn't one of them. Not even close.
I missed the memo about parkour now starting later and therefore was gone on my first dance/parkour taxi run for over an hour instead of 30 minutes. An important phone call I needed to take came in during the short time I was home between dance/parkour taxi runs and left dinner prep a mess of half chopped veggies and raw chicken that didn't make it into the oven.
Feeling stressed about how the evening was unraveling, I pulled this one aside and offered to pay her a bit to at least help her younger siblings get homework done while I was on the second taxi run.
She smiled at me and said, "Don't worry about paying me Mama, besides, I already helped all the elementary kids get their math done. And right now I'll bake some muffins for tomorrow's breakfast."
I may have cried some tears of gratitude. God has blessed Ian and I with some amazing young humans.
And she's a pretty great leader of the pack.
*photo taken 10 years ago yesterday...I may have shed a few more tears over how quickly the years have flown.*
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