Blog worthy

So, I've been looking forward to tonight all week, because it was in my plans that Wednesday night, the girls and I were going to the urban core to help a mission feed some under-resourced folks.  ...I knew that tonight would be meaningful and powerful, and somehow inspiring...
...and it was...
so I saved my today's blog post for the end of the day, knowing I'd have so much to write about...

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I enjoyed the evening.  It was spent with an old friend that we do not see often enough. I met some new folks, got re-acquainted with some other new folks that I met last time I did this with this group of folks.. and it was all in all a good evening.  I came home feeling super blessed to have a home to come home to and I was thankful to find food in my cupboards and fridge, and yadda yadda yes, I'm grateful...  I just don't know how to put it all into words tonight I guess.

Is it blog worthy? or is it all kinda something I feel better about keeping to myself...

Well here's some blogossip for ya:
My seven year old told her biggest-lie-yet tonight.  It was over something relatively trivial - but if we let this lie slide, then when she's a teenie bopper, then these lies will be much more detrimental and horrific so we have to cover our bases early on and treat it as if this was, in fact, the WORST LIE EVER. 

The problem (I think?) here is that this girl has a GREAT conscious and hardly EVER makes bad choices.  She punishes herself with her own bad feelings after she's made a mistake.  It's a fault, really. 

So here she was caught in this big enormous lie (not really that big nor enormous but we're making it out to be because we're just mean parents I guess) and she's hysterically upset about it.   Hysterical. Like the world is going to end tonight and it won't be pretty kind of hysterical.

And part of me thinks that is pretty cool. Kind of funny in a way, actually.
But then the human part of me thinks it's pretty sad, too.  I mean - seriously - it's okay. She's already forgiven. No biggie, geesh.

But the fact that she doesn't know better than to let this TORTURE her inside makes my job as "mean mommy"  a bit easier.
(I think?)

...and that, my friend, is tonight's blog worthy news.