I realized a few weeks ago that part of the problems I was experiencing with the kids might have something to do with the fact that I was so focused on them that we were all kind of turning into self-centred little brats.
In our faith walk, when we focus too much on ourselves, we can get depressed at the futility of our situations. The 'doing what we don't want and not doing the things we know we ought to do'... And I realized that our home, as a result of home schooling (or rather the behaviour issues that led us to home schooling), had become so inward focused that we (mostly I?) couldn't see the progress that had been made over the past few months.
Since then, I've been trying to be much more intentional about lightening up over the little things and trying to get a more outward/global focus so that it isn't always just about us and what we want. I still need to figure it out a bit more, so we'll have to see where it all goes.
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