This past weekend our little family went to St. George to celebrate Rock's grandparents 60th wedding anniversary (pictures to come). It was so nice to meet some of Rock's family I have never met before. Rock's dad is from South Carolina so there are definitely some Southern values I learned this past weekend.
My enlightenment came during sacrament meeting in St. George. Both my kids were asleep so I could actually hear the speaker and their messages. The first speaker talked about receiving revelations. At that moment I think I had a revelation or my enlightenment moment.
I have said this before but the Lord keeps pounding me on the head with it. Stop comparing my self to others and stop judging others. I realized this weekend that nobody is like my family. I love my family and the things we do together. We always help each other out and try and get together often because we have fun together. Not all families are like this. I was not raised like other children were and it is not my place to tell others how they should raise their children. Just because I was raised one way doesn't mean that is the right way. It is none of my business how you raise your kids. I will do it my way and you can do it yours. All I can do is just let my kids be around family because family is important and then try and teach them at home that what they do at their house is not what we do at ours. I can't keep my kids away from family because of the choice they make and I can't get frustrated just because I would not do it that way.
Heavenly Father governs his children individually. What works for me in getting his message across doesn't work for someone else. That is what I need to remember with my kids. Mack is a different individual than Gunnar and probably will have to be disciplined differently.
Bottom line I am doing to best I can with my kids and so is everyone else for the most part. Just be patient and love your family!
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I learned this lesson from my sister-in-law. She said she assumes that everyone is doing the best they can with the knowledge and skills they have. Of course, this is in general, there are a few exceptions here and there. But overall I think it's true and try to live by it. Only recently am I starting to get comfortable in my own skin as a mom. I do things very differently from my own mom. But I look at how we all turned out and hey we're not the most amazing people in the world. Cabe's family is much more relaxed than my family, but they've all turned out to be pretty great people. God gave us the kids he gave us because he knew we could handle it the way we would handle it. I just try to be better today than I was yesterday and only watch other parents to see what I can learn, what they do well.
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