How a Kitchen Faucet Taught Me that Loving Myself was More Powerful than Loving My Son

Devon is living at home for awhile.

He does not enjoy the automatic faucet in the kitchen.

I got it for my birthday and I love it.

So the frustration of him messing it up (by turning it off and on with the handle) has been a challenge.

I thought I needed to love him more, but as I used it as an opportunity to love myself more, then everything shifted.  

I want to be his mom and get him situated and in a better place.  He needs a mom right now and that is why we brought him home.

Great reminder to love myself.

I am grateful that I am the kind of mom who will make this sacrifice for my son.

It is awesome that I can do that.  I am so proud of me.  I make sacrifices for my kids.

I love this boy and I want to be his mom, even when he messes up my faucet.

I am going to be inconvenienced sometimes with him living here, but I am all in.

Loving me is the gift of this whole situation.

Good job me!

It wasn’t about making a new thought about him, it was about making a new thought about me.

Loving myself more really can help me love him more too!