The subjects are the busiest group of people you will ever meet. DP and Jr both do gymnastics and baseball all year long. DP plays football in the fall. Lu does chorus and theatre nonstop. Especially as the plays are about to have their shows, Lu has rehearsal every night for several hours per session. However, SuperMom and I believe we should have dinner together as much as possible, and I would say we almost always have dinner at the table together. It is usually a late dinner, but it is a dinner together. Recently, I started requiring the subjects to list three things they are grateful for each night. SuperMom and I do the same. The subjects have an infinite amount of things to be thankful for, yet they are unaware of them. However, they are doing their best. They are thankful for food, coaches, friends, school, etc. We have been doing this for five days. I have mentioned my mother, SuperMom, my family, my father, etc. SuperMom has done similarly. So I am thinking that any day now, one of them is going to be thankful for SuperMom, me, or our family. Finally, last night Lu states that "I am thankful for my family ... of theatre." I almost fell out of my chair. SuperMom and I just started laughing. Here we are thinking, "hey someone appreciates the fact that I get up at 5:30 am, we drive them all across this earth, we take them to rehearsal, to baseball, to football, to gymnastics, to every blessed thing they think of, we provide food, cook food, do the laundry, and all the other things that make us exhausted". But no, the gratitude goes to the damn theatre family. Why? Because they help her get in and out of costume. Oh well, at least they are grateful for something.
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CategoriesAuthorPracticing medical physicist trying to raise three kids in the south. |