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Perseverance

4/30/2016

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I finally got the call! The call I had been waiting for since Honey started school. My daughter was a Terrific Kid's award recipient!!! I am so proud. I mean, honestly, I always knew she was terrific, I didn't need an award to tell me that but oh I knew she'd be so excited. She'd won the award for perseverance. Wait a tick... perseverance?? My kid? She hates doing anything at home. Homework. Cleaning her room. The other day she burned a hard boiled egg because she didn't watch it and completely forgot about it. I'd like to say that I allowed it to happen to teach her a lesson, but I'd actually fallen asleep. Go figure.

​It was amazing to me that perseverance was the award she'd won. I always figured compassion or empathy or even humour but this award opened a whole new side of my daughter I'd never met. She had tenacity. I mean, she can be persistent when she wants something, I just figured school wasn't something that she found as important in her life as other things. It was all very cool.

​Today as I was driving around I realized that as much as I'd tried to teach her to persevere I hadn't really shown it myself. Looking back, when the tough got going, I got going... in the opposite direction! I never really thought of myself as a quitter, but if I look back and am completely honest with myself I am. Thank you Proverbs 31 for helping me out with this in your current bible study! So maybe I should start looking to her as a source for perseverance and an example of how to overcome obstacles. There's nothing like a mommy moment where your kids teach you something.

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    Andrea

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    You know the saying, the grass is always greener on the other side? This is my attempt to find greener grass right where I am in my life.

    ​BTW - I'm the one on the right, just in case you didn't already know that.

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