Parental Grace
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Friday, August 15, 2008 2:36 PM
* is the only thing that prevents me from crying out, “What do you want? For the love of all that is lovable, what on earth do you WANT already?” when the baby cries out “Mama, Mama!” just one more time at the end of a long day.
* is what helps me keep a straight face when a 6-year-old boy glances nervously backwards and asks in all earnestness, “Which shoulder does your guardian angel sit on?”
* is what enables me to answer, “No, sweetie, what?” when a 5-year-old girl asks, “Do you know what is funny? Do you? Do you? Do you?” no matter what else is swirling through my head.
* is what helps me to focus on a baby’s sweet, smooth skin as opposed to his obstinate temperament at 11:23 PM or any other time that I’d rather be doing my own thing.
* is what makes my mouth form the words “who’s there?” in response to an absurd number of “knock, knocks.”
* is what makes me too tired to protest when a 3-year-old announces, “Move over! Here I am!” at exactly 3:42 AM as he pushes the covers out of his way and flops his enormous self, entirely uninvited, upon my pillow.
* is the very thing I depend upon when I step on yet another pointy-legged plastic horse at precisely the moment I notice yet another smelly, forgotten, balled-up sweat sock, at exactly the time I realize that no one—in fact, NO ONE—has bothered to put away the gallon of milk as I asked.
What does parental grace do for you?
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