The goal in writing this blog is to give some much needed observatory distance from the chaos that is my every day life. It helps if I take a moment to reflect on the day’s events and allows me to be a more accepting person/Mom. I have grown leaps and bounds in acceptance but there are still times when I find myself holding my breath and wishing that my boys were a tad bit calmer than they actually are.
It just ain’t so.
I had high expectations for our family movie night viewing of ‘Hoosiers‘. While I am at heart a true girlie girl, I appreciate good sports and I adore a good sports movie. This particular movie is very special to me. I vividly remember going with my Mom to see it and we bonded tremendously over the nail-biting basketball sequences and rooting for the underdog. I truly felt like my mother’s daughter after this experience. She, the lover of all things basketball, realized that maybe I wasn’t only all about lip-gloss and hairspray.
I prepared myself that the boys would lose interest in about the first five minutes of the movie. Despite this mental preparation I couldn’t help but ‘wish’ that they would sit quietly for its duration and maybe even love it a little, too.
Thankfully, it exceeded my expectations. Granted, T.Puzzle fell asleep because the movie had a late start, but Full Speed was riveted.
Maybe there’s more to each of us than we realize.
If we learn to let go of what we think people should be, they might just surprise us and be exactly who we need.
And learning this is the slam-dunk of motherhood.
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yahoooooo! slam dunk is right, girlfriend. your daily observations will allow you to see the growth of your boys in ways that most moms never see…..when our guys were little I remember vivdly noticing when we got home from summer vacation…..wow, look how they have grown since last summer! But you are seeing it day by day, month by month, what a blessing, appreciating as you go along. 3 point shot for Diana!!! xo
Fantastic!! Glad movie time was so wonderful 🙂 and also happy that it brought back so many great memories of your mom and your bond with her 🙂