My Beautiful Mess

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Do you find yourself ever trying to play a role you weren’t designed to play? Do you have to daily remind yourself that this is God’s story that you get to be part of and not the other way around. This is definitely one of my many flaws. Why do we so often try to play God in the life that doesn’t even belong to us. I love Laura Story’s new song because it reminds me that I get to be part of His story. It reminds me to acknowledge God and let him be God. My job is to just be me.

Hope this encourages you today.

I’ve been doing all that I can To hold it all together,piece by piece I’ve been feeling like a failure Trying to be braver Than I could ever be It’s just not me

So be my hero, be my comfort Be my peace Cause I can be broken I can be me, Lord I need you now To be, be my God So I can just believe

I’ve been living like an orphan Trying to belong here But it’s just not my role I’ve been holding on so tightly To all the things that I think Will satisfy my soul But I’m letting go

So be my father, my mighty warrior Be my king Cause I can be scattered, frail, and shattered Lord I need you now to be Be my God so I can just be me

Cause I was lost In this dark world Till I was finally found in you So now I’m needing, desperately pleading Oh Lord be all to me

And be my savior, be my lifeline Won’t you be my everything? Cause I’m so tired Of trying to be someone I was never meant to be

Be my God Please be my God.. so I can just be me So I can just be me I can just be me

Laura Story-I can just be me

My son Jad has discovered the movie Cars and all things Lightning Mcqueen and TowMater. “If I’m lying, I’m crying.” We hear that phrase a lot from Towmater on “Car toons”. When the previews came out for Planes he would make his excitement sounds-”OOH-EEW-EEW” We saw it a few Saturdays ago as a family. He loved the fast action parts but there were times when the planes were conversing that he got bored.

I love that Disney continues to embed life lessons in their films.  (I thought it was a Pixar film, but it is not.)

There is definitely a thread of believing in yourself throughout the movie.

-Dusty is made fun of when he goes to prequalify because he isn’t the typical racing plane.

Dusty was definitely the underdog. Most of us like watching movies like Rudy, where the main character is victorious even when the odds are not in his favor.

Sportsmanship, Humility, and Teamwork

Dusty helped the British plane land without crashing. It was a competition and he was sacrificing his chance in placing but he did what was right. The British plane was not kind to him before the race and made fun of him because he was a crop duster plane. Dusty still chose to help him.

I love how teamwork was shown when all the planes pull together to fix Dusty.

Ripslinger was a great villain.

I love the Spanish plane and his great pick up lines. My favorite one was “Are you tired because you have been flying through my mind.”

I also loved seeing India and the Indian plane. My niece whom we hope to meet in a few months is sitting in an orphanage. Ella was able to see and connect to that part of the movie.

The relationship between the older plane and Dusty reminded me a lot of Doc Hudson and Lightning Mcqueen in Cars.

The final message that I felt like Pixar embedded well was this….”You can be known by other things.” You don’t always have to be a _________(fill in the blank). (For Dusty it was a crop duster)

2 favorite Disney Links

http://disneyworldforum.disney.go.com

http://thedisneymoms.com

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Summer has ended and we no longer know everything that our children are doing during the day. School has started and we long to hear what went on during the hours we weren’t with them. What did they learn? What did they read? What did you choose to do during independent work time? What made the day great? You have all these questions right? Your sweet child/children get(s) in the car after a long day and the dialogue looks something like this.

Mom-Hey! How was your day?

Child-Fine

Mom-What did you learn?

Child-Stuff, a lot, nothing really–I’m sure the list can go on. Ella used to say-Can I have a snack? I have no clue where that came from. Ha!

Mom-What did you do work on today?

Ok….I know you get what I mean. Haven’t we all seen it or heard it from either our children or another child.

Don’t we long to have our children invite us into their day? Don’t we want to feel a part even when we are not with them.

There was a time that I had a conversation like the one above with my daughter. She would get in the car and I wouldn’t turn on music or give her a toy until she could tell me something about her day. Some of you are thinking she is 3! That is fine, but I don’t want her to grow up thinking that was the norm. Each day I did that, I found that it became more and more inauthentic. So….I tried a new approach. I started telling her about my day. I always start with Jad and I missed you today. This is what Jad and I did while you were at school. I tell her everything. I (being a teacher) have learned that if you model for kids they seem to grasp it much faster then if you just told them.

This past Friday, Ella got in the car and our conversation went like this.

Ella-Mom, Guess what we did at school today?

Me-What?!?

Ella- I tied ties, Did you know that T starts with t-t-t. I also got to work with gears. It was so cool! Do you know what a gear is? Mom, Look at my folder I made a flower book.  Do you know what a pedicel is? That is the part that you hold. When you pick a flower you know? Mom, I played Jake and the Never land pirates at recess with Makayla, Anabel, and Matthew. We had fun.

Me-Wow Ella it sounds like you had a great day today. I didn’t know that the stem of a flower was called a pedicel? I was about to say something when Ella interrupted me with….

Ella- Mom, What did you and Jad do today?

As I began to tell her about our day, she would make comments like- cool, that’s good, way to go Jad, etc. Then she followed up with “Mom, It sounds like you and Jad had a great day.”

Hopefully for us, this will be the norm. As the eldest, she is setting the tone for her brother (and other future siblings). I found myself thinking about what it would look like hearing 3-4 daily recaps. I hope that one day I will experience such a blessing.

“What did you do today?” Here are a few more ideas for talking about the school day.

http://creativehomemakers.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-happened-at-school-today.html

Sometimes you have to be more specific. Jamie, from Hands on as we grow shares a great blog.

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