The longer I am a parent the more I learn. Children have a way of stripping all the fluff away. They stick around just long enough to whittle you down to the lean and the mean...they serve up opportunity after opportunity to examine your motives and methods. You eventually realize that you have to get brutally honest with yourself about what you consider absolutely "essential".
This automatically re-categorizes a large portion what you used to feel vitally important into the "optional".
It's simultaneously terrifying and liberating.
Shoes on everyone's feet?
Optional.
Matching dishes?
Optional.
8 hours of sleep? Nutritious side dishes? Cute hairdos?
op...tion....al.
Kind words?
Essential.
Forgiveness?
Essential.
Thick skin?
Very helpful.
2 ply toilet paper? A hot shower? Functioning space heater? Access to good chocolate?
Absolutely crucial
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