"You know what I'm sayin?!"

I spent THREE hours with a woman who said this to me approximately three times per minute. That's approximately 540 "You know what I'm sayin?!" 's. Ridiculousness at its best. "Miss Laura! I'm NOT an alcoholic--I can stop whenever I want, I just need my 6 beers a day to mellow! You know what I'm sayin?!"
My favorite part was when her child was throwing a full blown tantrum before having his blood drawn. His mom had made a deal with him that if he was brave, he could have a piece of candy. Since he starting crying again, Mom says "Fine! Then give me back my candy!" I've never seen anything so pathetic in my whole life....the boy gets up, tears streaming down his face, pulls the candy out of his mouth, and puts it in her hand as if to say "PLEASE don't make me do this---I'll do ANYTHING!" Children giving up candy is like me begging for my life. I couldn't help but laugh, it was just too funny.
Aside from surviving his blood draw, which required 7 people---4 nurses to hold, me and Mom holding and distracting, and 1 blood sucker---my biggest victory of the day was one of my children having a WHOLE day with NO time outs! You just don't understand, he had 6 yesterday! It's been an effort to motivate him to get his act together--and he worked his stuff today--Mom was almost in tears she was so proud. I drove to that baby's house just to tell him how proud I was of him. Too funny. And then I find myself crunching numbers for our "Summit City Security" budget---website soon to come! (no joke)
The other day I was writing a letter because I was angry and frustrated. With no one in particular, but simultaneously multiple people in particular. I knew faces were just a means to distract from more serious/lasting issues, so I just wrote it to no one--but wrote my frustrations. It was particularly hilarious because I felt as though it really summarized my restlessness, exhaustion, and frustration in 3-4 paragraphs (cause I'm good like that!)---but after reading it through a few times, I realized that what I had seemed to have written is what I suspect the Lord's frustrations with me are, currently. I immediately thought of the line I so often throw out regarding my 4 year olds "We see problems in others before we see them in ourselves." I don't know if its because I act a fool so much (don't answer this) but I think one of the reasons why I treasure working with children is because its so easy to understand how/why people are just complicated. Yes, sin is black and white much of the time, but people are complicated and life is hard sometimes. You know what I'm sayin?!