I Will Fight!

I WILL fight for you!

I love you enough, that you will know what is right and what is wrong. You will know that you do not give disrespect and expect respect in return. You will know that life does not stop because you need a day off. You will know that doing right one time is not an excuse to not do right. You will know that there will not be a fairy coming behind you picking up and cleaning up. I will not give you "atta boys" for everything you do. Life does not pat you on the back for doing what is expected. You do right because it is right, not to hear someone say "good job". I love you so much that I refuse to let you out in to this cruel world with a false expectation that things will be handed to you. You get disrespectful then I will turn from frufru lace lov'n lady in to Drill Sergeant Mom! I will bend over backwards to help you, to lead you, to guide you, sacrifice for you. I will give my LIFE for you... BUT I will NOT baby you! You were my baby and I loved every minute of it. Now, you are growing... no more milk, it's meat time boy and God gave you too much in that brain to waste it. He sees you have potential and it's my job to show you.

This, is for all moms of teen boys who love them enough to get tough and LOVE them by standing up to them and for them. I'm not done, I refuse to give in, God gave me these boys and they will know that I will fight for them. It is so easy for me to say "whatever, they won't listen, I'm done" This is VERY hard for me to write and put out there but I feel a tug once again to push it out there....

God has given me another "umph". Strength that only comes from Him. My knees are callused. My heart is broken. My face is tear-stained. I absolutely ADORE my boys and am so very proud of them but God has spoken loudly to me. Think of it this way... what if God said "Joy, you've come this far so, you're fine, no more, you're good" In a sense I feel that's what I have done. I've gotten SO frustrated but not intentionally done anything about it. For some odd strange reason I thought that by 14 they should have it all together hahaha I see the craziness of it but to continue takes

some willingness to fight and I'm tired. Thank you God for Your strength!

Ok, I feel some kind of major hoorah com'n on or something...... Let's do this!!!!

I think I'll go bake them some cookies first.... ;)