This month, Elisabeth from The Optimistic Muse, is hosting a month of daily gratitude prompts. I’ve been trying to practice gratitude more, and each day I write something I’m grateful for in my planner.
I’ve decided to take this one step further in August, and join Elisabeth’s challenge by blogging my daily gratitude prompt. So here goes!
The highlight of my day was…
Seeing how moved my husband was when he was reading the birthday card my son gave him.
Amongst other things he had written simply “thanks for being my dad.”
You guys, parenting is hard. We are always beating ourselves up, wondering if we are doing our best. Wondering if we are too angry, or too hard on our kid. Or not hard enough. We are our own worst critic, which, in a sick way, shows we are doing the best we can.
And it’s truly a thankless job.
Speaking from experience, I think I only realised how hard it was when I had to do the job myself. And I don’t know if I’ve ever really driven the point home to my mother how grateful I really am for her.
So in a way, watching my husband get just a hint of a message that our son appreciates him, and how much it meant to my husband, it meant everything to me too.
Because he truly is an incredible husband and father. And we are so very very grateful for him.
The highlight of my day was watching someone else feel appreciated. How lucky am I to be there and witness that?
What was the highlight of your day? What’s something special about your parents that you love and appreciate?
Love this! It really does mean so much to get positive feedback from kids.
Parenting is a 24/7-365-day a year job and since there is no one right way to do things it can feel overwhelming. For good reason. It’s hard to try to love and clothe and feed and train and support and discipline another human trying to raise them into a productive, loving, caring, and happy adult.
So I 100% understand why this meant so much to both you and your husband and kudos to your son for being thoughtful in his writing.
Also, I tend to believe that if parents are worried about their parenting and constantly trying to make sure they’re doing things well, chances are they’re great parents!!!
Our little guy can be so empathetic and caring sometimes, and it makes me so proud. We must be doing something right somewhere along the way! He’s a great little dude. But you’re so right, there’s never an “off moment” and it’s so hard.
Parenting IS hard! But when the kids are adults and they happily come to visit with you and enjoy being around you, well, then it’s time to bask. That’s where I am right now and it’s lovely! But yes, there are a lot of hard parts and a lot of second-guessing.
That sounds like an incredible place to be, job well done mama!
I second Nicole’s comment. Adult kids are amazing! But it is always wonderful to have your kids appreciate you when you are in thick of parenting.
After another chaotic night of “please, just go and brush your teeth!!!!” I’m going to remind myself that there are greener days ahead.
Love this!! Parenting is definitely not for the faint of heart. I just remind myself that I’m giving my kids good fodder and topics of conversation for when they’re in counseling as adults, hahaha.
That cracked me up so hard. I’m officially repositioning it in my mind that I’m giving him therapy content – LOL
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