(It is going to sound like I'm exaggerating – especially the traffic part. I'm not. Totally 100% honest.)
Today I was out running errands and I looked at my watch while in Target.
11:30. I have to pick Ellie up 10 miles away at 11:45.
"Oh, Shoot!" I said. (Okay, I said I would be 100% honest. I actually said another word that rhymes with "hit". Thank goodness Colin can't talk yet, since it was right in his little ear.)
I get in the car and zoom towards her school. I get off at our exit. Traffic is stopped for construction. No biggie. There's another way to go. More construction. Then more construction. Then more construction. I finally get her school ten minutes late and run in to pick her up, throw her in the car and zoom off to pick up Grace. Did I mention that Grace is also supposed to be picked up at 11:45, but her teacher lets me pick her up later?
Construction. More construction. I went through construction – complete with flaggers – EIGHT TIMES between the highway exit, Ellie's school and Grace's school. That would be EIGHT TIMES in about THREE miles. So I finally picked up Grace 25 minutes late. (Well, sort of. Fifteen minutes later than I usually do, 25 minutes later than I'm supposed to.)
They were both the very last kids to be picked up. Ack! Bad mom!!
We got home and I was clearly frazzled. I was apologizing to them repeatedly while we took off shoes and backpacks when Ellie took my face in her hands and said:
"Mommy, its okay. Its okay if I miss my bus or if we forget something or if I'm the last one at school or if you make a mistakes. Its okay, Mom. Everybody makes mistakes. I love you and I always forgive you."
That is what made me cry. In a good way. Over my incredibly sweet baby girl. When did she get so grown up?
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Forgiveness is such a hard lesson to learn — it takes a lot of maturity. Clearly your children have wonderful life teachers and role models to show them the way: you and your hubs.
That’s SO sweet!! I even got teary-eyed and I don’t even personally know this little angel of yours!! They do grow up too fast!
How sweet. I’d definitely cry, too. Don’t we learn so much from our children?
Oh my gosh… that made me cry. AMAZING!!!! I wish someone would tell me that it’s ok if I make “a mistakes” too…
Crying now. Are you happy???????
I think she might just be the sweetest kid I have come across yet!
Oh my. Too much. Perhaps she could record that and play it for me on hard days. Even if she’s not my child, it may help me remember that it’s okay that I screw up. What a reminder of God’s grace for us!
Awwwww… so sweet. Isn’t it great to see some fruit of your labors???
That’s incredibly sweet. I love it when they put things into perspective for us.
That is very sweet! Kids know more than we think they do and they truly are so amazing.
How sweet! I would have to cry too.
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That is adorable. She muts have heard you say that at some time