Things that Keep me awake…

I had a completely different idea for a post in mind when I selected this particular prompt… I was planning to talk about things that go bump in the night when the house should be silent… the way that the cat jumping on the roof of the house the night of the great tarantula scare freaked me completely out and kept me imagining a b-grade horror flick about giant tarantulas taking over and surrounding the house….

Then… as it sometimes does… life happened.

I’m not going to share the details because the details don’t matter, but over the last few days, starting mid last week (right about the time I went a bit silent here for anyone who noticed) some events transpired and now THOSE are the things keeping me awake…

Anyone with kids in their lives can probably relate… whether a parent or not.

• Am I doing “enough”…
• Am I doing the right things…
• Am I keeping my ego in check to make decisions logically… rationally… instead of letting mama bear roar…
• How do I juggle all of the different needs and personalities in this particular equation to find that balance between helping and enabling… and avoid making things worse…
• Trying to remember that I’m the one forced to be the clear head here {scary, I know}  because I’m the only one who can…
• Questioning how to teach our children not just right from wrong but critical thinking skills that our schools are not capable of teaching with all of the other tasks put on them…
• Am I doing enough…

These are the things that are keeping me awake right now… and are far scarier than anything Hollywood could create.

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