It’s a good thing I’m not a stay at home mom. There’s no telling what I’d get myself into. I had a c-section when Ellie was born. They say to stay at home 6 weeks to recover. Yeah…it was show choir season, and I choreographed a Bruno Mars medley the week after. I just CANT stay at home and chill for longer than a day. It’s been raining this week so, I participated in Transformation Tuesday. It leaked over into Wednesday.
I got the family involved in some interior upgrading of our house. Ellie’s room got upgrades to a “Kindergarten Ready” room and our living room got a “big kid” make over as well. Right now, it feels like a doctor’s office, but the color is beautiful. It will just take some getting used to.
Moat transformation pictures are upgrades. Sometimes we upgrade styles, other times we upgrade age. I found this beauty the other day.
This was a transformation Tuesday picture a few years ago. I was looking at these pictures in my cell phone. When I looked up, I see this:
I mean, how does that happen?! I shoved my phone into my pocket. If I look down at that device again, I’m afraid I’ll look up and she’ll be walking across the football field at graduation.
My kids are definitely my kids. They get stir crazy just as bad as I do. I realized while Pinteresting paint colors for my wall that they were running wild around the house. I sat there on my phone trying to concentrate and they were still so loud. So I made a huge mistake: I gave them their iPads. It was quiet; the quiet I was hoping for 2 minutes earlier. But, it didn’t feel right. Here it is, summer, and my kids are laying on a couch, staring at a screen. So that I could do what I wanted in peace. During their summer break.
When you see two pictures, one that is the “transformation picture”, you see a drastic change. One that makes you say “Oo!” What you don’t see is the events that happened between the two pictures. In our painting pics, you never saw the conversations we had at that kitchen table, or the game nights we had on those couches, or the song leading and speech practice that went on in front of that China cabinet to prepare the kids for their Lads to Leaders church conference. In the pics of Ellie and Ben, you never see the lessons learned, the fits pitched, the tickle fights, the love shared, and the birthdays celebrated. All of the things that happen between the pictures make up the transformation.
I made the kids put up the tablets. Of course, I had to put up my phone to-only fair. We made a list of all that we want to accomplish this summer. The less time I’m on my phone, the more boxes get checked off of our list. I owe it to my kids to fill in the gaps between the pictures with quality family time. Colossians 3:13-14 says, “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you had a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together perfectly in unity.” The love and forgiveness our family practices makes for transformation pictures they can be proud of.
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