It's already late on Friday evening and since my kids displayed a phenomenal inability to get along in the last week, our usual Friday Night Movie is postponed until better behavior arises. Yep... we've had to can movie night here. [If I told you why, you'd cancel too!]
Instead, I'm listening to the muffled sounds of my 2 kids playing basketball in the basement as the temperture drops below freezing. My husband and I are fiddling with our respective electronic devices. Oddly, we're actually getting family time. We ate dinner together. We talked about our day. We are doing our own things right now... and that's okay.
I know, it sounds odd... but our "own thing" this week means respecting each other.
What strikes me as odd, is that I loaned a book to a friend months (maybe a year) ago... she returned it today. It is about "heart-oriented" discipline. It takes things from a biblical perspective and references Proverbs quite a bit. It is precisely the book I needed to pop back into my life. So tonight's family tradition has been replaced with my kids playing, not fighting; my husband being intrigued by a book on discipline and corralling the kids; and me... just wondering.
As far as awesomeness goes... this has been a week of displaying our awesomeness deficit. Sometimes, as a family, it's absolutely key to just stop and do nothing. Not every minute has to be jam packed with creating memories and moments. I'm pretty sure that my kids will one day look back and say... remember that night our parents let us play basketball in the basement. Sometimes, moments happen when you're not trying.
[For the Record: the above referenced book is: "Don't Make Me Count to Three!" by Ginger Plowman]
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