Partners
in Parenting
Some
of you may remember the television show “Unsolved Mysteries” from a few years
back. I don’t think it is on any longer,
but I don’t know for sure. I have one
going on at my house!!!
In
the picture to the left, I have my mailbox post (brown) with some mulch around
it. The curved cement is the
cul-de-sac. The cement at the bottom of
the picture is my driveway. You can see
grass on most of the lawn, but the corner of my lawn was driven on over and
over all last summer. Now, as soon as
the snow melted, someone started driving over it again. So, I decided to dump a whole bag of potting
soil in the hole that was over a foot below the rest of the grass and four to
six inches below the level of the cement.
I even staked the area with 3 green stakes to mark the space and let the
grass seed I had planted grow without being disturbed. I woke up Sunday morning to see one of the
three stakes broken off and lying on the ground, a new hole formed, AND A TIRE
TRACK LEADING AWAY!!! (see the dark cement on the cul-de-sac) Yes, I’m yelling!!! Holy smokes!! Who keeps doing this? I’m so frustrated, and I can’t believe it
keeps happening. WHY????? What part of “drive on the road” is someone
unable to understand??!! Seriously, this
is hard to fathom.
As
I put the stake back up and leveled the dirt again, I thought about how
parenting can be a series of unsolved mysteries. Mostly because all the mysteries aren’t worth
the energy to solve:
Whose
cup has been on the coffee table for 2 days?
Why
are the kids’ socks always in a ball in the laundry?
Who
tracked mud through the house?
Why
is the refrigerator door all sticky?
Unsolved
mysteries can drive you crazy (like my driveway), or they can simply cause you
to marvel. Here is the mystery I hope
always causes you to marvel:
“The angel said to the
women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was
crucified. He is not here; he has risen,
just as he said.’” Matthew 28:5-6a
Family
Discussion Points!
Can
you think of some unsolved mysteries from the past week?
Who
in your family usually gets the blame for unsolved mysteries in your
house? Does the dog ever get blamed?
Is there joy in the mystery of the empty tomb? Why??
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