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Why is this happening to me?

Why is this happening to me?

After years of begging, negotiations and tears I finally gave in and let the kids have a dog.

We »tried« with the bunnies before to see if the kids are mature and reponsible enough to even have an animal. And they more than proved they are. Of course there were some days when they needed to be reminded to feed them or clean their cage, but otherwise they were and still are taking good care of them.

The first puppy we chose died during the sterilisation operation. After the first shock and desperate children’ cry we started to look for another. We were so eager now to get a dog. Still determined to get one from the shelter, we browsed the internet and called around. With very little luck. When we found a dog we liked one was already taken. Then we found another and no one answered the phone. At the third attempt their attitude was really awful.

Why is this happening to us? Why are we having so much troubles? What does this mean?

Is this going to be a gift or a burden?

Is this going to be a gift or a burden?

This month my dear daughter surprised me with her decision: »Mom, I will be a vegetarian.« Wow… this is something you don’t really want to hear, especially if your daughter has trainings every day for few hours and everyone believes that she needs meat (and I must say here that we don’t eat a lot of meat, but still…).

It was the same day that I saw an article on my Facebook wall describing the traps, teenagers fall in, when deciding to go vegetarian. According to this article, more teenage »vegetarian« girls suffer from eating disorders and health problems, related to food than the »normal« group. It could be the first step to eliminating other foods as well. You can read the whole article HERE.

Actually no one was happy about it. Her swimming coach asked us about our food preferences, in school they noticed she’s not eating everything as she did before… And I really started to worry.

Is Money a Gift?

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Is Money a Gift?

When children celebrate their birthdays or now, when Christmas is just around the corner I started to think about perfect gift for the children. Is it something they need? Something they want? Something that is clever and smart to do?

One year Tina invited her friends and asked them to contribute money for the PSP (portable playstation). She earned and saved some of the money, and she hoped to get some from her friends. I really appreciated her efforts to get her own money instead of just asking and bagging me for it.

But as I might think it’s a good idea, other parents obviously didn’t agree. I am always very pleased when anyone tell me what he wants or needs. It’s so difficult to buy a present to someone who already has everything.

Well, Tina got enough money to buy PSP ( I gave her some, too), but from half of her friends she got presents. And I must say those gifts were something she was really pleased to receive (it’s so much more exciting to unwrap the gift than open an envelope, right?).

Sweet Little Lies

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Sweet Little Lies

Every evening when my daughers go to bed, I go to tuck them and kiss them good night. But the other day I was working on something and we say goodnight and kissed right after the dinner.

Tina said: “Will you come and kiss me again, when you will go to sleep?”
“Sure.”

But I didn’t. I completely forgot about my promise.

Next morning I was about to do laundry and while I was getting sheets from the beds, I also asked Tina to get her dirty clothes from her room. And that’s when she got me! “You didn’t come to kiss me yesterday. Otherwise you would see that I cleaned ant tiedied my room and that ther are no dirty clothes around.” Ooopss.

So, how many times are we saying or doing things that we don’t mean? Or that we say them just to go on with our lives and forget about them?

Even if it doesn’t sound much, it meant a lot to Tina. And I dissapointed her. I felt so bad. Not just because I broke my promise, I might even signal her, that she’s not really important. I skipped the ritual for other “more important” thing and it looks like I didn’t think of her at all passing her room to my bed.

Now think about your life and your situations.

To Give or Not To Give

To Give or Not To Give

Few weeks ago (oh, my, how time flies) I was writing how our attitudes and our expectations form our lives. And few days ago it proved right once again. I was at the parents‘ meeting in school. Tina’s class is going to spend a week at the seaside, swimming and learning at the beach. The kids are so excited and can’t wait to go. And parents are excited as well, but unfortunately many of them in the negative way.

 So after the teacher explained what they will be doing and how will they spend their days and nights (yes, they will be sleeping there) a whole lot of questions arise. Mostly really frustrating and worrying.

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