Candid

This morning was come meet your teacher and drop off supplies day. My littlest is not thrilled about starting kindergarten, so I gave him free range of the room and stayed to the very end. The teacher commented about how patient I am with my boys. She said, "You have a lot of patience!" My usual reaction to compliments is a quiet smile, while my brain goes through all the ways I fall short of that compliment. So with patience, all the ways and times I have lost my patience. And every time in the future I will say "See how I am not patient!" The focus becomes my failure and the compliment quickly disregarded with a bat of the hand, Today I've been mulling over why I just can't say thank you and accept the positive remark for what it is. Yes, this morning I exuded patience. Good for me. It is not a time to remember all the times I have failed at this. I will fail at it again. But today I did well. Believe the compliment. Focus on the good.