One of those weeks....

Ever have one of those weeks where people are very critical of you and you being to question your talents? I have one of those weeks. I chose not to spew back ugliness toward the person, but haven't felt very nice toward her either. It's made me question myself a lot and even though I have lots of other people telling me how good I am I've spent most of the week questioning and second guessing myself. Why do we do that? Why is it that negative comments have so much more effect than positive ones? My friend, Heather, has been trying to find the positive in her boys and mention it more often- something I think I need to do as well with my kids. I try to, but there are days that seem more negative than others...Jennifer once told me she was trying not to yell at her kids before school anymore. She posed the question- "how would your day go if the first hour of it someone was yelling at you?" I need to to better at that too, espeically when we are late. The Bill Cosby approach seems to work better than yelling- I make a joke out of everything- or a funny voice- of course that requires more energy and creativity on my part. So I guess my lesson for the week has been to be more positive and complimentary to others because that is what I like to hear as well. No one likes to be told they aren't good, or their stuff is stupid. In any case, these are my thoughts and ramblings of the week.

Not much news as Ryan is SUPER busy working to get stuff turned in on the Oct 15th deadline- he's been at the office til 3am twice this week already. Justin's bruised up one side and down the other since his offensive line apparantly forgot how to block in last week's game. Amber is dying to have her own blog- I'm thinking on that one. One of the kindergarten teachers said she thought that Marin had grown even since school started- she's going to be tall early like I was. Ben (I wish I had had vidoe camera) was following one of the teachers at the dance studio this week in the window and was doing his hip hop routine- it was the funniest and cutest thing I've seen in a long time! Amber and I are busy getting ready and rehearsing for our huge stake musical- it's next week. That's the update from still sunny and beautiful as ever California.