Friday, November 25, 2011

Family dynamics

This has been my daily prayer for the past two weeks

Lord save me from them and them from each other.

Drama, misery, victims, jealousy, mentally unbalanced, angry, entitled, snarky, manipulating, spoiled, whining, martyrdom.  Just a few of the adjectives that immediately come to mind when I think of the last 6-8 months.

We seem to have our moments of happiness in-between all the above, when (at least to my way of thinking), it should be the other way around.

I am not a perfect person, I don't even strive to be.  I'd be content with...well content.  Took a good look at my life these past couple of weeks, and good gracious.  I went from being semi well adjusted (or what passes for it these days), to being frustrated, resentful, and just plain unhappy.  It's started to affect my health, and I'm not having it.

The kicker is I've no one but myself to blame.  I have taken a seat at a table I've no business being.  Were these people strangers, I would have never accepted the invite to the dinner.  Truthfully, I realized this months, ago, but because I didn't want others to be upset I just kept eating way past the time I should have excused my self and gone home.

I'm praying for extreme, and lasting patience, because the way I'm feeling, if I had strength, I'd cold cock every freaking one of them.

I'm working on relocating my center.  Through it all I've never stopped counting and being thankful for my blessings.


Stay blessed,


 

Elijah is here!

Weighing in at 9.4 lbs he's a big'un.  I'm doubly blessed to have another Grandchild!




Stay blessed,

Married!

Well, we did it, just as I said we would.







Stay blessed,