The Mom Life

*warning: This post is extremely honest.  Please love me :-) I don't know when it started, but I became angry mom at some point in this motherhood journey.  Walking too slowly to put you dishes away, "Hurry up, kid!"  Not getting multiplication, "Come on, think!"  Its time to go to school and you aren't ready, "Put your shoes on in the car, and you can just go to school with bad breath.  We gotta go!"  All those examples I just thought of point to another sin problem, perhaps the root of "angry mom," and  that is impatience. It would be easy to blame it on our stressful life.  The stress of coming home after working with students on their English all day, to have to spend hours with my 3 kids doing homework in spanish.   The stress of practically raising several teen boys who don't have active parents in their lives to tell them, "You don't need to go to that party," and "Are you fleeing from temptation?"

Three weeks of no school sounds like a wonderful idea.  No lesson planning, no homework, no dress code, sleeping in...so many great things.  Unfortunately though, we didn't budget for a winter break vacation or anything special, so the kids and I had a lot of free time on our hands.  We had guests from the states staying with us during this time also, and anytime we have guests, we have boys stopping by ALL.THE.TIME.  Don't get me wrong, some of these kids are some of the greatest blessings in my life as I get to see Christ in them as new believers. But after awhile, I just needed a day out.  A day where I didn't have to hear the ring of the doorbell, or wonder what we'd feed the army of people in our house, or wash a million dishes by hand. If you do some research, there's a few cool things to do around Cochabamba.  You can visit the Cristo (larger than the one in Rio, folks!), but we've done that plenty of times.  You can climb Mt. Tunari.  We made plans for