Some days...

{Balancing Act}

Just got a call from a mom who works in Turner's Class. She said that he told her he watched "Parenthood" last night and that he now knows that Max has Aspbergers WAY worse than him. 

He said "Max just learned to wash his armpits, butt and balls with soap! I have been doing that all along and I am only 9!" {wow. speechless son.}

I guess having four boys you develop a tough skin.  I use to want to have that perfect little family.  You know the one with the insanely caring husband that brings flowers, leaves love notes and is "in tune" with his wife's emotions?  

THAT husband who knows when you are dog dead tired from dealing all day with a mentally impaired child, paying the bills with not enough money, doing the grocery shopping, 4 loads of laundry, dealt with fighting kids, homework, mopping up muddy dog prints off the kitchen floor, putting out a fire that your kid started by holding toilet paper over the candle you lit to make a nice homecoming for him, cooked a nice dinner all in the couple hours before he arrived home from work - and would NEVER dream of asking for eh, hem...you know that thing you have to do that starts with "S" and ends with "X" the minute you lay your head on the pillow.

The kind of family with the well mannered kids who relish in doing their chores just to be helpful, who never fight or use bad words, who dress the way you want them to, who love to get up early on Sunday to go to Church, teens who pull their pants up so you can't see their underwear, who never ask for money or make you feel guilty that they don't have a cell phone...you know that kind?

Well I know ... big dreams.  

You get what you get.  I get that.  So at times like this when I am left speechless...{believe me there have been many}  I just have to smile.  My life is just one big balancing act.  I have to be careful not to take things too seriously and teeter off that slippery slope!

I have learned to just throw my head back and laugh.  In the grand scheme of life it really won't matter tomorrow what people think.  It is what it is...and a little bit more!!