Forgiveness...

(I apologize from the start for the less than thrilled Brandon pic, but Cannon is the focus here anyway! :))

I am always AMAZED at just how forgiving children are! Poor Cannon has had to deal with several bad moods around our house. Brandon has been working like a DOG! He hasn't made it before 11PM for three weeks now (having left the house at 7AM), and has had to work the last few Saturdays (and it's not even busy season anymore)! Which leaves him with ONE day off, and when you are a Mormon that hardly counts! Sundays tend to be full of family, church and exhaustion! Add to that the fact that I am working more for the next 6 weeks and our poor little boy is stuck with two ornery parents!

So do to the fact that I am once again doing this parenting thing solo, working more and the stress of Brandon's work, I find myself easily losing my patience with Cannon far too often! Whether he is trying to run his own bath water, clean out the dishwasher (usually dirty dishes), fold the laundry (unfold the already folded laundry), help with the cleaning or yard work, make dinner, honestly it doesn't matter, he is always right there trying to help and I am always barking at him telling him "NO! GET OUT OF THAT! DON'T! LEAVE IT ALONE!" and patting his bottom, or his hands! Is it any wonder those have become some of his favorite or at least most used words!

I honestly just need to take two steps back and look at the sweet innocence of this child and thank my Heavenly Father for such a PRECIOUS, SWEET little boy! However, I can bark at Cannon all day long and at the end of the day he still throws his arms around me, plants a wet kiss on my lips and says "I WUV WU." After a long day at the babysitters, he greets me with a the sweetest "HEWO" you have ever heard and instantly leaps up in my arms, knowingly or unknowingly that we are headed home for a couple of rough hours before bed I am not sure, but it doesn't matter because once we settle in to read Scriptures and say Prayers all of the days sins are forgiven in this little boys eyes. He only cares that his mom is there holding him and loving him. If only adults could be so forgiving think of how different the world would be.

I guess my reason for this post was so that I could reflect on what a blessing it is to be a mother, not a burden which I sometimes treat it as. I am so lucky to be Cannon's mom and I am even luckier that he is so quick to forgive me of so many wrongs! I so LOVE my little Can-man and I can not even imagine life without this little man. What a sweet angel he is! I guess it is my turn to learn how to forgive and work on being the best mom I can be for this precious gift. After all he is only mine for a little while. One day I will be sending him on a mission or entrusting him in the arms of a loving wife and I will only be able to long for the days when he was always "helping."