One of the many things I dearly love about blogging is all the fabulous people I get to “meet”. I have honestly met some of the coolest. peeps. ever. thanks to my little ol blog.
One of those people is Tabitha from ichoosebliss. Not only does her voice sound like velvet and never fails to sooth this frazzled Mommy’s nerves, I love how she thinks. How she writes. How she blesses people.
Plus, she’s rubbing off on me 
How do I know this?
Every Wednesday morning I have a very early morning women’s networking group. This meeting is very important to me. I leave it energized and feeling like Superwomen. It also requires me to push my already tight schedule up a half hour. No big deal, but that means I also have two little sleepyheads to try to motivate at the same time. I hate being late and since this is a professional group, I try very hard to never BE late. But as with all little kids, things rarely go as planned and there ends up being a lot of rushing around Wednesday mornings.
But today it hit me. As I barked at my poor half-asleep 6 year old (for the 5th time) to put on his shoes…it dawned on me. Why am I doing this? What is the WORST that can happen to me by being a few minutes late?
Will I be booted from the group?
Nope.
Will I look bad in the eyes of the other members (who are all Moms as well)?
Nope.
The only penalty I could think of was…I’d have to pay a $1 late fee.
A BUCK! One hundred friggin pennies.
That’s it.
In that moment I decided from now on I will gladly pay the $1 every week….and NOT spend one morning a week hollering, carrying on, and starting my babies morning off on a bad note .
Thanks Tabitha.
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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Ok, I cried for like 10 minutes before I could type anything. (seriously)
I am so deeply honored by your post! I feel so blessed to read this tonight. You have NO IDEA what kind of boost you’ve given me! OMG!!
Thank you for reading my blog, for listening to my podcast and most of all for blessing me so sweetly!! If I could hug you I would.
I feel truly blessed!
I LOVE Tabitha and her podcasts are amazing!
It’s about changing perspective! Congrats for choosing bliss!
This touches on an area of pride for me. Can I BE prideful? Yes I can.
When I wake my daycare kids I never have to rush them.
Since the 3YO has been a daycare kid all his life he’s yet to outgrow the panicked look that he wakes with; “I’m UP! I’m UP!” which is especially painful to see since his chemo took away all his hair.
When this happens I remind him that we’re not “hurry-upping” and that we just need to “get the sleep off of his parts.”
We shake or rub his limbs, his torso, his head. It’s “his job” to rub his eyes.
I’m a hard a** in a lot of child-rearing areas, but RARELY is anything so important that you’ve got to stress a sleepy child.
Thanks, FranticMommy, for posting about this great site! I love that the first of her “10 Commandments” is “Always Be Tabitha.” How often do we try to be such people pleasers that we forget who we are? (You know me, I’m a big advocate of “Self Respect is NOT Selfish!) I have “My Rules for Living” posted on my corkboard in my office where I can always see and be reminded of them.
I can’t wait to listen to her podcasts! She seems such an inspirational person! We definitely need more like her in the world!
I loved this.
Love the attitude adjustment. I need to read this blogger. I could use a dose of “reality”
Blogging is some for the connections that you make with people! I am so glad that you made a good one.
Oh this is so true. Sleepyheads are usually sweeties too. USUALLY.
I would pay that dollar in a heart beat! Sometimes we need to just lower our shoulders and accept that we cannot be Supermom all the time!
Just dropping by from SITS to wish you Happy Saturday Sharefest!
I CHOOSE BLISS!! Haha Great Post. Life is too short to be rushing all the time
Good for you. Bliss is worth a buck.
just stopping by from SOTS to say hi; hope you’ll do the same/
I simply must go pay Tabitha a visit.