My Thoughts Today

So on my way home from work today i heard this song and balled my eyes out. The crying could be in part due to my unstable emotional state from being pregnant, but most of it was because this song is all too true for toooo many kids today.
Working with just pre-schooler children i know that even some of them take on so many more responsibilities than they should have to because their parents wont take care of them, or expect them to take care of themselves completely. Every child deserves a childhood. They deserve to be taken care of, loved, and allowed to play and have a care free life...that is childhood...that is what they need to develop.
Today i think we focus way to much on raising independent children. I do think that children need to be "independent" for a child, this is not the same kind of independent you may be thinking, really for a child independent should mean that they need to learn to tie their own shoes, put their coat on, pour their own milk, pick up their own toys, make their own bed....these are all self-help skills...skills children need in life. They do not need to figure out what to have for breakfast on their own, fix breakfast for siblings, clean the house (they can help mom, but shouldn't be left to do it on their own).
The scriptures teach us that children are submissive, humble, teachable...and as adults we need to become like them...not take advantage of them and their natural kind nature.
Sorry to be so bold, but this is a touchy subject with me lately. Please let your little ones be little. Let them get dirty, let them make a mess, let them play and learn. Help them learn responsibility by your side. Don't expect them to do something you are not willing to do with them side by side.
Anyway, Here is the song. The only place i could find it was YouTube, but it works. Thanks for listening (or reading) to me on my soap box.

Emotional Roller Coaster

The title of this post is what i have felt like the last week of this pregnancy! Why you ask? Well at my last appointment they did the glucose test, and i failed...by quit a bit, so they told me i had to come in for the extended one (our could otherwise be called the torture test :) ) Living so far from the hospital (I am still going to Murray to my old doctor, 2 hours from here), i had to wait till Spring break so i didn't have to take more time off work to travel up for a 3.5 hour test. So to say the least the past week i have read up on what gestational diabetes is all about, freaking myself out, thinking for sure that i had it. I shed my fair share of tears on my amazing hubby's shoulder and my fair share of sick stomach aches just thinking about all the things that could be made more difficult if i had gestational diabetes.
Yesterday, with my bestest friend aka my momma, i went up to the hospital starving (OK not really i just really wanted a drink) because you have to fast from midnight, and took the test from 11-2. They drew my blood 4 times (but did an amazing job--not a mark on my arm!!) and i left still worried that the call today would bring nothing but bad news and justification for all my worries over the last week......BUT
I DON'T HAVE IT!! Holy Smokes what a relief! I just broke down into tears when i hung up the phone in relief that i don't have it, and relief from all my worries! So there it is, my story. I am ready to have a little one in my arms and take that new roller coaster of life and get off this dang emotional one that i am on. I have never in my life split so many tears than i have since i found out i was pregnant! But all for an amazing cause. Brandon and I are getting so excited to meet our little guy!!