The thought went through my mind as I drove home from dropping the kids off for parenting time, "It would be so much easier if I could just drop them at their house." And then I realized that if I'm wishing I could drop them off at their house, apparently I'm feeling a lot more comfortable with their parents and with them going home.... and this made me realize how much my thinking has changed over the last few months. I can only attribute the change or the comfortableness to God because I certainly am not ready for them to be home yet.
Over the past few weeks, I have become much more comfortable with little boy and baby girl's parents. Well, maybe comfortable isn't quite the right word. But I can't think of a better one. I keep surprising myself with thoughts like above, or wondering if it would be weird to invite them over after the kids are back home, to share a meal and campfire with us in our back yard.
While they are not the type of people I would normally befriend [because we are drastically different], I do know that in order for this life change to stick for them, they need to have positive influences around them... and I wonder if we could be a positive influence on them? Would it be easier to send the kids home knowing that we might see them again soon? Or would it be harder trying to make the change from Mama and Papa to just adults who are close to the kids? Would it be harder to watch them grow and change or harder to wonder how their doing and not be able to find out? I don't know. But I do know that the date of them going home is now [probably] less than a month away.
Well, on to chores around the house for next hour or so... much easier to do some things while the kids are away!
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