A Wife and Mother

I just began reading a book titled, " Heaven Is Here."  All growing up the author couldn't wait to be a wife and mother.  That is all she ever wanted.  When those two things happened she felt fulfilled and accomplished.

Wow.  I wonder if some women are just born with that desire, if it is a family structure that instills that wish, or just where it comes from.  What a wonderful thing to feel - complete.  I never planned on getting married let alone having children.  In fact I told Mark when  we got more serious that I didn't want to have kids or stay at home.  His response was, "okay."  It was my career that changed my mind about staying home, but I don't feel fulfilled.  I still look forward to going to UNM (Mark did say we could move to Provo so I could go to BYU again) to receive a Masters degree.  There is so much knowledge out there just waiting for me to tap into and so much research that can be done.  The education world is exciting to me.

Aha Moment

Can I just say I hate my calling?  I don't think a certain parent reads my blog so I'm going to write about it here.  I actually don't even think we're friends on facebook.  There is a kid in my primary that is just difficult.  This child (I'm being gender neutral) acts like a spoiled only kid to the extreme.  It absolutely ruins primary for me!  It is hard to talk about Jesus when a little one still struggles being reverent.  There is no disability, ADHD, or anything, just a little kid demanding to have all and constant attention.

Today I had an aha moment.  We were playing pictionary and a student said something and everyone laughed.  Immediately this kid made a comment trying to be funny, but no one laughed.  Do you see?  I knew he was attention seeking, but he has to have the attention.  The behavior came because someone else took it away.  Oh, now I can do an antecedent, behavior, consequence on this little one when my co-teacher teaches and figure out how often it happens and the times between incidences.  This will tell me how to change the behavior.  Awesomeness.

I never did work with attention seeking behavior; my kids at school were all avoidant.  But I'm excited (and not telling the parents!) to see what I can do.  Love data.