Some days people might think it’s really funny that Drew puts on five pairs of clean underwear. I don’t laugh, most of the time. I just think of the extra laundry and how he must have destroyed his underwear drawer.
Some might find it comical the way Hayden makes jokes or asks if we can walk on Uranus when he’s supposed to actually be doing his multiplication facts. I mostly pull my hair out. I just want him to focus, so that he can learn and we can get on to the next subject.
Or when Levi pees in the floor for the fiftieth time and the puddle is man-size and everyone laughs at just how much a tiny boy can pee, I don’t see the comedy, just the extra work, the mess on my hard-earned clean floor.
Some days it is just harder than others to see the funny in the situation. Some days I am more task-oriented than joy-oriented. I know this about myself. I have known it for a long time. Blame it on being Type A. Or blame it on the fact that I have a bunch of kids. Or that I love organization and hate chaos. Or a combination of all the above. Blame it on whatever, but I have to constantly re-set my mind. Apparently my brain wants to go one way, while my heart knows and understands that this is all so temporary and really, the trivial, petty concerns of this life are just that.
And the Bible talks quite a bit about joy and laughter being nourishment to us humans.
Proverbs 17: 22 says, ” A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
So really. To be cheerful is a choice.
As moms, it is VITAL that we choose to find the humor, that we choose to laugh….that we choose JOY.
Otherwise, we’ll all be bald. And that’s just not very marathon, if you ask me.
Laugh today. Even in the messes.
Love
Brandy
I love reading what you write! And I miss seeing your JOYful face at sporting events!!! Take care and know that I think of you guys often.
Oh, Alicia, thank you so much! And you have no idea how much I really miss you and Allen Sports and ALLEN!!!! Hope to see you soon!