Never Quite Enough

At least that is how it seems to me some days. I try and try to do everything I possibly can for my children but most days I end up falling short. Take tonight for example. I spent all afternoon making a couple of lasagnas, rolls, salad and cookies. I was asked to make dinner for a family at church who just had a baby and of course I might as well make one to freeze and one for my family to eat. (DK wasn't home for dinner tonight so I saved our lasagna for dinner tomorrow night when Kenners and I will be at a Girl Scout function. But I digress...) I packed the chick-a-dees into the car along with the food to be delivered and off we went. On the way home I decided to pop by to one of their favorite eateries and pick up a surprise dinner for them to eat at the playground. Wow! What a great idea! What a fantastic surprise!! OOPS, not so fast. I forgot JK's shoes at home. Walked right past them when I was loading the food and baby gift into the car. ARGH! So we needed to go home and not to the park. Kenners was especially unhappy with me. I felt like saying, "You know kid? Life is full of disappointments and if this is as bad as it gets well then that's just too bad". But of course I didn't. 

I thought back to a comment my mom had made to me recently. She asked, "How come it is you girls (my sister and I) seem to only remember the mistakes and the not- so-shining moments from our childhood?"

I responded by saying, "It's not that we only remember those times, it's just fun to needle you with them". What a nice daughter I am, huh?

But it's true. I'm sure when my kiddos are all grown up I'll hear them reminisce about the time when Mom did this or forgot to do that, etc. etc.

I think that is called pay back time!!!