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Week 35:

This blessing took place the week of May 25th – 31st

A friend of mine recently shared this quote on Facebook:

"Your greatest contribution to this world may not be something you do but rather someONE you raise." – Craig Groschel

How fitting for my life right now? Sometimes I beat myself up for not climbing up the ladder in the career world and feeling sorry for myself because I haven't achieved more success… Whatever that means… In the past couple of days I've come to realize my role as a mother will forever be my greatest achievement. Thankfully, the job I currently have allows me to provide excellent insurance for my family and allows me to spend time with my family. No I don't get to spend all day everyday with my son, but my favorite part of the day is picking him up and hearing him yell "mommy" as he runs to me with arms open, ready to receive my embrace. This week's blessing was all about Eli.

Eli loves dinosaurs- he calls them roars grandotes, translation big roars, for those who don't know he's learning both English and Spanish.  It's very important to us that Eli learns to appreciate both his American and his Mexican heritage, both will impact his life and learning two languages will benefit him in the future. Anyway back to the dinosaurs, for a while Eli's favorite movie was Jurassic Park; he thought it was SO funny when the dinosaurs would eat the humans. I'm sure for some this is crazy, why would we let a 2 year old watch Jurassic Park… Well because he likes it and really enjoys the dinosaurs plus some of it is educational, I mean you learn about dinosaurs, right? Rest assured we have found more age appropriate dinosaur movies, and encourage Eli to watch those instead. Remember he's our first and like any first child an experiment, eventually we will build a safe kid friendly movie library to protect any other (if we have more) children. Hehe!  

Getting back to the blessing this week, a zoo fairly close to us has a Zoorassic Park exhibit right now, which means we can see Jurassic Park dinosaurs up close! Like any good parent we took Eli to the zoo to see the "real" dinosaurs and hear them roar, in person and close enough to touch. Granted to Eli these probably were really real and might have scared him, just a little…

He was so excited to meet these extraordinary creatures.   
 

 
 However, his excitement didn't last long…
 


Thankfully, though Eli was still excited to see the rest of the dinosaurs, but only if I held him, which was okay with me because someday he will be able to pick me up and hold me instead. So I'll hold him for as long as I can and as often as I can.

As you can see we aren't perfect parents and we don't read any parenting books on how to raise a child. We simply love and take time to invest in our son. We sit down and listen to him tell us the colors he's learned, tell us stories about his roar grandotes, tell us stories about his cars, or tell us about anything else. Not only do we listen but we ask him more questions because even though he's only 2 we want him to know we will ALWAYS be here to listen and actually hear what he has to say.
 
No I might not be a supervisor, a manager, or the president of a company, yet.  But I am a mom and even though I have days where I want to pull ALL of my hair out because Eli drives me crazy, I'm still thankful to be his mom. To be the woman God entrusted to raise him. The woman God blessed with the responsibility of raising a man as honorable, loving, hardworking, and godly as his father. A tremendous task I don't deserve but am blessed to have the opportunity to attempt to contribute to greatness. I'll never be the perfect mom or woman, but I plan to continue to invest in my son the way my mother invested in me. To take the time to listen and hear what he has to say. To try my best to not fix him or a situation but to love him through it, and to continuously pray for him and the future God has in store for him. God has been good to us and we are blessed to have a son to bless.
 
Take the time to bless someone today... Even if that someone is only 2.

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