Happy Birthday!

I am sure that on occasion we all experience cognitive dissonance. Sometimes this is caused by outside influences and sometimes it is caused by undo pressures we put on how we think those situations should be or go.

I experienced such cognitive dissonance this past weekend. In preparations for my birthday celebrations I requested to my children that all I wanted for my birthday was for them to be obedient, and that this would be the ultimate gift.

I thought that this was a reasonable request since "MY" children are quite mature 6,5,2, and 1 year old. I mean I am not asking them to do this all the time just for a meager 12 hours or so.

Obviously this idea was set for disaster from the beginning.

First off my birthday was on Sunday. To put an image in your head, Emma went to church without brushing her hair and no tights on with shoes that were a little to big for her. I could have been embarrassed but she seemed to think that she looked just fine, so I put my pride aside and let her go looking like she just got out of bed. This should have been my first clue that my request was near impossible to meet.

Second off I was asking little people to do something that even us big people have a hard time doing. Setting myself up big time!

So what do I do? I acted like a child and threw a tantrum! That is right. I figured I had a right to. I also figured we will have enough in savings when they are older to pay for the therapy bills that would incur because of my manipulation that took place this day.

All this got me were a bunch of birthday cards, probably made out of guilt, that were made from the 2 older ones while I took a much needed nap.






After my nap I realized I had acted like a weirdo and apologized to everyone with whom I had tantrum ed to and made peace. I reset my expectations and enjoyed the rest of my birthday!

Come to find out there was a full moon this day. Can I just blame it on the full moon?