As I was screwing up the banana muffins I decided to bake one of boys asked what was for dinner. Of course, I didn't know what was for dinner. My brain is so full and in ten thousand different places I rarely know. It was a late start for the kids so that means my day didn't start until 11. Which means I didn't start thinking dinner until 2, which means I have no idea what I'm making for dinner.
Now it's homework time....3rd grade homework time. I looked at it, I read it and I didn't understand any of it. I reread it, still left scratching my head. Luckily this 3rd grader has older siblings and I was left to finish ruining my banana muffins while his older brother helped with homework.
This got me thinking, what am I really good at? The only thing I could think of is I am good at taking photos, I am good at telling a story with a snap of a shutter. I may not be able to give my kids gourmet homemade meals or fluffy delicious baked goods but I can give them photos. Photos to look back on, photos full of memories and passion(maybe that is the wrong word to use, my mind kind went to a naughty place for a second but I'm leaving it). That is going to have to be enough, it's all I got. Well that and they usually, most always, have clean socks to wear.
Fast forward a couple days... We had to go to the grocery store, the only grocery store here, to get snacks for the girl's trip and some other staples we had run out of. Of course Mr. Fun sees five people he knows, luckily I only saw two, my best friend and her husband. She asked me about the muffins, the girl chimed in quickly saying they were good. This is when she looks at Mr. Fun and says "she thinks she can't bake or cook but she can. And she's good at it." She's my personal cheerleader, everyone needs a friend like her. Truth be told, 2 years ago I wouldn't have bake anything from scratch. Also, 2 years ago I never followed a recipe. So I wouldn't say I am good at it but I could be.
I am not sure where this is going, Egypt maybe......I've gotten off track.
So what I was saying is that I may not think I am enough but the people that depend on me, my kids, my husband, my friends, do think I am enough. I suppose that is the lesson here, you are enough.
You don't have to do it all to be enough. You are good at cooking but your kids wore the same socks two days in row, that's enough. You love craft time but burn almost every meal, that's enough. Your kids are always clean and wearing clean clothes but there's two days worth of dishes in the sink, that's enough. You send your kid to daycare because you have to work but you are always there for a story and a snuggle in the evenings, that's enough. You let you kid eat ice cream for dinner because you are exhausted but you fix him eggs for breakfast, that's enough. You plop your toddlers in front of the TV for a couple hours on Saturday morning so you can sleep but you take them to the park that afternoon, that's enough. YOU ARE ENOUGH! We can't be everything to everyone that depends on us but we can be enough.
Stop here and repeat after me.... I AM ENOUGH! if you aren't convinced, write down everything you did today that wasn't for yourself. Reread that list and then at the bottom write I AM ENOUGH!
No matter what you're good at or not good at, you are enough. 
Now it's homework time....3rd grade homework time. I looked at it, I read it and I didn't understand any of it. I reread it, still left scratching my head. Luckily this 3rd grader has older siblings and I was left to finish ruining my banana muffins while his older brother helped with homework.
This got me thinking, what am I really good at? The only thing I could think of is I am good at taking photos, I am good at telling a story with a snap of a shutter. I may not be able to give my kids gourmet homemade meals or fluffy delicious baked goods but I can give them photos. Photos to look back on, photos full of memories and passion(maybe that is the wrong word to use, my mind kind went to a naughty place for a second but I'm leaving it). That is going to have to be enough, it's all I got. Well that and they usually, most always, have clean socks to wear.
Fast forward a couple days... We had to go to the grocery store, the only grocery store here, to get snacks for the girl's trip and some other staples we had run out of. Of course Mr. Fun sees five people he knows, luckily I only saw two, my best friend and her husband. She asked me about the muffins, the girl chimed in quickly saying they were good. This is when she looks at Mr. Fun and says "she thinks she can't bake or cook but she can. And she's good at it." She's my personal cheerleader, everyone needs a friend like her. Truth be told, 2 years ago I wouldn't have bake anything from scratch. Also, 2 years ago I never followed a recipe. So I wouldn't say I am good at it but I could be.
I am not sure where this is going, Egypt maybe......I've gotten off track.
So what I was saying is that I may not think I am enough but the people that depend on me, my kids, my husband, my friends, do think I am enough. I suppose that is the lesson here, you are enough.
You don't have to do it all to be enough. You are good at cooking but your kids wore the same socks two days in row, that's enough. You love craft time but burn almost every meal, that's enough. Your kids are always clean and wearing clean clothes but there's two days worth of dishes in the sink, that's enough. You send your kid to daycare because you have to work but you are always there for a story and a snuggle in the evenings, that's enough. You let you kid eat ice cream for dinner because you are exhausted but you fix him eggs for breakfast, that's enough. You plop your toddlers in front of the TV for a couple hours on Saturday morning so you can sleep but you take them to the park that afternoon, that's enough. YOU ARE ENOUGH! We can't be everything to everyone that depends on us but we can be enough.
Stop here and repeat after me.... I AM ENOUGH! if you aren't convinced, write down everything you did today that wasn't for yourself. Reread that list and then at the bottom write I AM ENOUGH!
No matter what you're good at or not good at, you are enough.
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And sometimes 1st grade homework is confusing to me.