Doin’ Good as Parents

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Doin' Good as Parents

The holiday season is such a stressful time for me. It seems like I have so much to get done and there is never enough time to do it all. In addition, the holidays are the busiest time of year for my job so I am juggling so many balls.

I feel a lot of pressure to plan the perfect holiday and to make everything perfect for everyone else as well. I spend months and months shopping for the perfect gifts after making lists for everyone I have to buy for. I spend months creating a menu for our perfect dinner and then I spend days cooking that dinner. Like I said, perfection.

I think that this quest for perfection causes me too much stress. My kids don’t demand or even want perfection. They want me. It is those imperfect moments (i.e. standing around a burnt birthday cake still singing happy birthday at the top of our lungs) that make the most amazing memories.

In fact, some of my best memories from my childhood are centered around imperfect moments. It is those imperfect moments where we have to respond off the cuff, right from the heart that really make me appreciate the time I had with my parents and the time that I get to spend with my kids.

My husband is one of those parents that I admire. His doesn’t have a quest for perfection rather his quest is imperfection. A few years ago, I was out of town for work and he took the kids to have pictures taken with Santa.

There were so many factors that he had to take into consideration that I spent the entire day texting him to make certain that he didn’t forget a thing. He pulled it off perfectly except for one thing. Our youngest wouldn’t smile for anything. In fact, she cried the entire time. (She is the little one in the center of the picture below). At the height of her meltdown, my husband told the photographer just to take the picture.

He didn’t say a thing to me and when I got the pictures, I laughed so hard I cried. The most imperfect moment of all was actually perfect. It made for the best picture ever and something that I still proudly display in our home to this day. My husband really got it right.

My husband is #doingood as a parent and I strive to be more like him. I want to learn to let go of plans of perfection and live in the moment instead.

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Minute Maid®.