I think she might be sent here to teach me something...

Why is it that we will pay top dollar to have someone else distress our wood and then get all 'distressed' when we do it ourselves? A few weeks ago, we held Baylee's Suzuki Violin Book 1 Recital. Shay, Tanner and I tried to push the piano from the music room into the family room (do you see where this is going? yeah....) I now have two rather large 'distresses' in my front entry wood floor. At first, I was a little 'distressed' at myself for not waiting till I had more manpower and even more 'distressed' that I had done such a stupid thing. I have now decided to look at this another way...every time I see those grooves I can remember that BAYLEE IS DONE WITH BOOK ONE. Hallelujah!! Oh the struggles, the tears that have been shed, and the lessons we have both learned from one dear Dr. Suzuki!! It was a much needed milestone.
Last night, Baylee had a complete meltdown, her book report was due (today) and she still had 55 pages to read. mmmmm....????? "I hate book reports!!!" "I don't want to do it!!!" in which I replied, "Ok, you know you don't HAVE to do it." More tears...."but then I'll get a bad grade!!" mmmm....??? Then, (and this is one of those full disclosure mom moments where you question my abilities, but just keep in mind that I am not perfect and at that time was completely overwhelmed) I said "just do the book report and finish reading the book on Friday" mmmm....???? thats when we needed buckets for all the tears...."But mom, that would be cheating!!" mmmmm....??? As my dear friend Suzzie would say....."For the LOVE!!!"