Divine Pursuit Update: The blog party is (finally) winding down, but I wouldn’t want you to miss two of my fave’s: Tracy Baird blogged about the Divine Pursuit–a guaranteed good review because she is my sister-in-law (and an awesome one at that.) Well, I guess she didn’t HAVE to give it a good review…I think she actually likes it though.

And definitely check out Laura Polk’s post. Laura and I met, well–you can read about it her on her site.

And one more thing: The online study group for The Divine Pursuit will be a google group. If interested, you can sign up here. Now moving on….

Do you ever have one of those days?

Today we had a great on-paper family day. We hiked. We ate. We laughed. We chatted. We bonded. We looked like we were just stepping out of Family Circle, for goodness sake, complete with adorable puppy and equally adorable children. (If I do say so myself.)

So there’s no reason–on paper–that I should have anything but a great day.

Reality Check–sometimes I just feel nasty. I just get tired of answering nonstop questions from inquisitive minds, I get tired of putting on my best mommy voice and saying “well, honey, maybe we can look that up later” (because usually I do not know the answer to why that caterpillar is black and white and how long it will actually be a caterpillar and will it live long and will it be a moth or a butterfly and what does it eat and mommy can I take it home?) I did know the answer to the last one, which was no.

Speaking of no, I do alot of saying “no” too. Don’t do that, don’t touch that, don’t eat that, don’t say that, don’t take that, don’t swing that, don’t hit that, don’t squish that, did you hear me SAY DON”T TOUCH THAT???.

So even though it’s a beautiful day and we are having special family time and the sun is shining and the breeze is breezing, I still hear a little jingle in the back of my head from my girl Pink:

I’m a hazard to myself…don’t let me get me

I’m my own worst enemy..

it’s bad when you annoy yourself….so irritating

Don’t wanna be my friend no more…I wanna be somebody else.

Anyone know what I’m talking about? And if so, how do you deal with your bad attitude?