How do I start this post without offending? Hmmm. It's my blog, my "diary", so let's just say screw it. I barely update this anyway! My big guy, his name is Ethan, by the way, got a dose of the real world today. In retrospect, it wasn't a huge deal; I knew that things were escalating, violence, sticks, so many boys playing together without supervision (my fault). Ethan had hurt someone, apologized, and all was fine. The little bro of the person that was hurt retaliated once (in front of me). Understood, good brothers always do! It was after that that the laying into happened. This said little bro started hitting Ethan. Ethan actually cried. If you know E, you know it takes a lot of pain to make him cry. The long and short of it, that's when we left. I am so thankful this happened in my view instead of a random playground at a school somewhere, unwitnessed. All in all, it did open my eyes to how my children act after this regular Thurs meet-up. I ignored it because I was selfish! The moms are great people! But I have to get back to the reason we are doing this (homeschooling): to bring up boys of character, and have a closer relationship with them. If anything gets in the way of that, then it has to go.
It's been an unusually quiet day, but I think my bubbly Ethan is back, at 10pm no less! God granted us boys with sensitive hearts, especially E. And just so this post ends on a positive note, with the nice weather, we've had the neighbors over more. I can tell that we haven't had people over in a while when Luke (my youngest) goes around to the guests and asks if they want drinks, would they like to play legos, wii, outside etc. So funny, we have a little host on our hands!
2 comments:
Let me know when and where you want a park day and we'll come play. Matthew really does have a good time with your boys and my girls get along with anyone. They're flexible and like that your boys don't seem to notice that they are girls.
I totally understand. One of the reasons we stopped (apart from Ash being too much to handle that close to the road and on the the playset) is that there were little girls who always got catty with Liv and it wasn't fair, no matter how much I enjoyed the convo to have her battle that. The hard part for us was that she is young enough she still wanted to go, simply to play with someone (being in the country is hard that way), but she was always upset half the time. Speaking of visitors, we need to come see you, or vice versa. There isn't any mud out here ;)
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