I know I don't need to tell you this, but not every moment is awesome. Sometimes we have hard days.
Today was such a day for my 16 year-old.
She is still working on accumulating her driving hours in order to take her driver's test. She usually drives to Northwestern where she does her PSEO classes and most days, she does really well driving.
Today was one such day. She was doing really well and then something snapped. Nothing in particular happened, but she was ready to be done.
Like done, done.
She had had enough of me telling her what she needed to do and when.
By the time she pulled the car over to unload her school gear, she didn't want to talk to me let alone look at me.
As a mom, that's really hard not to take it personally. It's really hard to just let it go.
But you know what? I needed to because she was feeling big emotions. And while she was in the middle of them, she couldn't explain to me what was going on. She just needed to be left alone.
So I dropped it. She was having her emotions and I was having mine. I embraced my emotions, but I also told them where to go. And it wasn't into my daughter's ear.
It's okay to have those moments or hours or days. Embrace it and then let it go.
Last week I encouraged you to Take a Chance.
And the week before I encouraged you to Call A Do Over.
Today I want to encourage you to Embrace the Emotion.
This weekend looks to be absolutely lovely. There are so many fun things to get out to do. We've collected them for you, so check out some of the best options.
