Parenting.

I have been thinking.  About parenting mostly.  I had a conversation a while back with a friend, about how different Moms have different pet peeves and how that is usually what we focus our parenting on.  I thought about it, and I wasn't sure what my pet peeve was.  (It is hard to pick, I do have so many). And then it got me thinking, what is my parenting goal?  As in, what is my ultimate goal for how my children turn out? What is my priority?  I think as with everything, you have to have a goal if you want to be successful.  Otherwise it is just work without any purpose.

Well I figured it out, thanks to a very mouthy week on Chloe's part.  I shed one tear yesterday thinking about how my 5 year old was acting like a 16 year old Queen Bee.  So that's my pet peeve: A Bad attitude, and an unbridled tongue.

So that is my goal: to raise polite and respectful children. 

And to do this, I know I need to be calm and consistent.  Which is a challenge for me.

But I have to.  

Yesterday Chloe told me that my meatballs looked like poop.  And then she stuck out her tongue about a billion times and refused to eat them.  

It was a really great day.