In your average work environment or professional sport for that matter, your always being graded. Being a parent its one of the toughest jobs you will ever do, but no one will be there every day to tell you how you went 'today'.
You'll have a great day with them where you feel like the father of the year and everything runs smoothly, but no one truely knows but you. Then there are the days where your up at the crack of dawn, the boys are bickering and arguing from the get go and the day just seems to be swamped by a bad vibe, still no one knows but you.
Its not like the boys will sit down with you at the end of a day and say "Well dad, I really didn't think you tried your hardest today, I give you a 3 out of 10" or "Dad you did a great job at playing cars and lego and then made me a yummy lunch today, 8 out of 10"
I had one of those rough days yesterday, one that any parent will tell you every now and again you'll have. By the end of it I was mentally just totally exhausted. I think I was asleep at around 8.30pm!
This morning I woke up at 6.30am (which compared to normal is a sleep in!) so together with my early night last night, I was feeling refreshed and ready to go. Today the school held its annual fathers day BBQ breaky so we all got a sausage and I got to go into the boys classes for some rare classroom time, for them to show me what they have been doing. William tried to teach me how to play chess (I need more teaching!!) and Jacob showed me his United Kingdom assignment and gave me a lovely cupcake and card.
Its days like today that you realise we are doing a pretty good job with our boys. I'm learning that being graded as a parent doesnt always happen 'today' it comes from how your children will cope with life and how you prepare them for this great big world we live in. The results will speak for themselves.
Jacobs fathers day card to me. Inside it he wrote "Owl love you forever XOXOXOXOXO" Being a father is awesome!!
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