A Little Like Me

So, being the know-it-all that I have to admit I am sometimes, when my sister-in-law gave her son watered down coffee last year because he liked it, I of course turned my nose up and thought in my head: (in your best mrs. doubtfire voice) "what a terrible idea! Never give a child caffeine or anything that they shouldn't have until the appropriate age." So, that was a year or two ago.

Today, June wanted to try some of my tea. Without hesitation, I reached down and gave her some....

and gave her some more

and then went and made her her own cup of tea so she could be just like mommy.

Who was I kidding? What a hypocrite I was being in my mind thinking I knew exactly how I would parent a child, never even having one. It is so easy to judge something/someone before you are in that situation and then you are there, and wow, you may do just the same thing.

And then, after thinking some more (quite a bit of thinking time here :), I thought when would I ever deny anyone the chance to be just like me? If someone walking down the street asked how to be like me, I would sit them down and give it to them step by step with all my huffed up pride.... and then, actually, I would probably feel bad later that I loved myself so much and call them and tell them how I'm not that great and had time to think of my many faults, and have to list them then too, out of guilt....

But isn't that how we live everyday. People aren't outright asking to be like us, yet they are evaluating our actions and our lives and deciding if, in fact, they could be like us and what that would look like. And we are thinking, oh I wish I would have said that or hey, catch me at this time...

But, in the meantime, since no one is asking at the moment, I get to have a little miniature human walk/run around trying to act just like her mama daily and I realize how wonderful that is, and if we pick up a few bad habits in the meantime, that's ok. It's not going to kill her. I'm trying to live more like Jesus daily and hopefully, she picks that up too. So, my little one year old is now a ginger peach with cream tea drinker and she is doing just fine.