Easter Pics

WE had Easter with the Berry's this year. The kids had a blast looking for eggs and doing a cute little craft. Really it was a craft meant more for the little kids, but the big kids were great sports about it and I think they had fun too.

Yes I am mean and scary, but one day you will thank me!

SO for the last little while both Avery and Zackery have decided that I am just to mean to be a good mom. It started with a question like this, Can I have my ear pierced? "NO" why not? " cause the lord said to treat your body like a temple and not defile it! Plus boy's don't look good with earrings" this entire conversation lasted way to long if you ask me. I don't know about your childhood, but when an adult told me "NO" that really was the end of the conversation unless I wanted to be grounded for eternity. THE next question was WHY won't you let us buy what ever we want when we want it. Why do we need to wait for birthday and Christmas and end of the school year to see if we pass to the next grade? My friends get what ever they want! This one I couldn't even answer right away. I was blown at the question to begin with and thoughts running through the mind at the time should not have been shared at all. So I took a min and tried to explain that you can't have what ever you want in life, just cause you want it. You need to work hard for what you have and if you don't work hard then you don't get it. INSTANT gratification is not the answer to anything in life. At this point I was told that I was a mean mom and that he wished someone else was his mom cause she gives her kids what ever they want. At this point I just told him that I LOVED HIM and that one day he would thank me for the lesson's that I am trying to teach him. He said not likely and walked out. I really love my children and they don't understand yet how hard I have fought to be worthy to be there mom, or how I have fought to stay there mom here on earth. I know that one day they will understand and that the little bit of heart ache I feel now will not last for ever! REALLY the things that my kids think about in a day blows me away! I LOVE YOU AVERY AND ZACKERY XOXO