Mama Sweet: I bought a sketch diary for my girls to bring on our Disneyland trip just to help pass the time. However, this week, that sketch diary has become the source of one of my greatest sweets. When I pick everyone up from school, I ask them to draw me a picture of their day and to tell me a story once we get home. It has been amazing to see the level of detail and emotion that goes into this "journal." It helps me hear about what's bothering them without asking. What a wonderful sweet is has been to connect with my girls and to understand their true sweets and sours.Mama Sour: I never realized how much it hurt my own mom to listen to the playground drama that I replayed for her. Every day that I am hearing the stories and hurtful things that are happening to my daughter, it breaks my heart and makes me feel so sad. I know that it is part of the maturing process. I wish I could tell my heart and stomach about the process.
Another commiserating mom friend of mine had the perfect analysis...these stories that we hear are the five seconds of insecurity from the day and then the rest of the day they are flitting like butterflies!
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