This picture so inspired me yesterday. We had just come in from outside and Sophie saw how I put my shoes there and hers beside them and after she stared at them for a minute, she giggled as she stuffed her shoes inside mine. I took the picture because I thought it was so cute that she did it, but then I got to thinking....everything I do throughout the day, she's right there beside me. If I'm vacuuming, she'd like to be...if I'm doing laundry, she's dumping in the soap. Then I kind of freaked! I felt like she was saying to me, "Mom, I so want to be like you, I'm going literally follow your footsteps by sticking my shoes in yours."I see my behaviorisms in Sophia all the time...that irritated "huffy" sound when I'm bugged by something/someone, her o.c.d.-ness that everything needs to be straight and orderly...overturned corners of rugs even bother her like they do me!
Do I really want her to follow my every step? Am I showing her the kind of woman I want her to be someday? Am I doing a good enough job at this?? It gave me a reminder that they're all watching my every move...so, model for them the kind of behavior I want them to have!
Thank You, God, for the reminder that I always have "spectators"! :)
1 comments:
What a great picture and thought. It is so true. Wait until they are 21 and talk to you like you used to talk to them. :)
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