You learn a lot about life when you become a parent. Kids are great at inadvertently teaching you life lessons. Take my Benji, for example. Every day he teaches me something. Sometimes it's patience. Sometimes it's selflessness. Other times, it's a lesson I have to dig for...
He's a professional potty-goer. Has been for about a year. He does a great job at going on his own. In fact, he doesn't usually like anyone to help him. It's one of my favorite things, for two reasons:
1) It means I don't have to make a trek to the bathroom every hour with him and spend my time pulling down and up undies and wiping a squishy little toddler bum (motherhood is a glorious occupation).
2) It means I get to excitedly wait for him to come back into the room and see how he looks. Usually he looks quite amusing:
Sometimes life throws us curveballs. Sometimes things don't go as we planned. Sometimes we go through life's challenges and come out a little different. A little mismatched. And that's okay. Because if there's one thing my toddler has taught me through his bathroom adventures, it's that imperfections add to our character...and they should never hold us back from enjoying the joys life has to offer.
He's a professional potty-goer. Has been for about a year. He does a great job at going on his own. In fact, he doesn't usually like anyone to help him. It's one of my favorite things, for two reasons:
1) It means I don't have to make a trek to the bathroom every hour with him and spend my time pulling down and up undies and wiping a squishy little toddler bum (motherhood is a glorious occupation).
2) It means I get to excitedly wait for him to come back into the room and see how he looks. Usually he looks quite amusing:
It happens frequently. He goes in the through the door looking one way, and comes back out looking another way. Sometimes, a lot of the time, totally mismatched and crazy looking.
But that's life, right? Sometimes, we have plans. We make these plans and, on paper, they look all put together and perfect. But then life happens. We walk in through life's door, and come out totally different. Half of the time we don't look anything like we did when we first walked in. And often times, not only do we look totally different, but we're completely mismatched.
And that's okay.
Because even though Benjamin comes out looking completely changed and a little silly, he's still this crazy, happy, goofy kid. He just dives right back in to whatever he was doing before he needed to go potty, enjoying all the simple pleasures life has to offer him.
Sometimes life throws us curveballs. Sometimes things don't go as we planned. Sometimes we go through life's challenges and come out a little different. A little mismatched. And that's okay. Because if there's one thing my toddler has taught me through his bathroom adventures, it's that imperfections add to our character...and they should never hold us back from enjoying the joys life has to offer.
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