My PRECIOUS lil boy

I thought I might have to kill my kid again this morning because he is up playing the computer, some game he is obsessed with these days. When I look at his homework folder and come to find out it is Friday. OH crap, Friday is always test day. And of course I haven't made sure he did any studying! By the time I come home from work, I have to cook, clean, and get everyone ready for bed. So I forget all about homework and stuff cause Doug usually makes sure he does his homework. That was done but he hadn't studied a lick! So I have to give him THE SPEECH again! "You aren't going to be able to stay a child forever. You will have to start being responsible for doing thing on your own and one of those things is STUDYING." Of course I hear the same ol, "Awww, I don't want to grow up." Who DOES? So he is reminded that God only had us be kids long enough to learn all the things we need to know to be GREAT adults. He hears this speech enough, why isn't he getting it?? Oh yeah, he's only 9. But I only have 9 more years to make sure he learns everything he knows to be a good man. Being a parent is stressful!

So he starts studying his spelling words, 10 minutes before we have to walk out the door. He can spell but he is going to do bad on this one cause they are a combination of compound words and hyphened and seperated words. He couldn't rememeber which was which. So I am sitting there freakin out on him when it is really all my fault cause I am not there in the afternoons with him to make sure he is doing his work. When I start stressing my blood pressure goes up and I start getting mad. Part of my anxiety problem and usually quit medicated for such things. So I stay pretty calm until he figures out he still has to study for his vocabulary test. OMG...the blood pressure just went through the roof. I am so mad right now I could probably spit bullets!!! He starts calling out definations and words when he says, " Something that you love and you keep close to you." or something to those words. Then he says, "Precious, Me, MOM, I'm precious to you." That was it. That is all it took. Anger gone for the heart and love has found it's way back in through my PRECIOUS lil boy!!! God is good! So I decided to not kill him this moring and let him live. Maybe he is a great manipulator, but who cares. He is still precious!!!