Inspired

Inspired by Hayley, who I now know we should have expanded the background check on her and if you start looking at my blog please don't grammatically shred it like all of my English teachers in my youth.
I have taken up my own blog in my long list of trying things we will see how long this lasts. I am already way past My Space, overwhelmed on Facebook and can't understand why anyone would want to know what I ate for lunch (Tweet).
Inspiration by my boys is another reason for this blog. My two sons are phenomenal, they are light years ahead of where I was at, at their age. I have to say that I was told the other day on the golf course that I should pick and choose my own battles with my kids, that I am militant, I should ease up.......and this is from a friend!! I have to say that I do look at all matters not as a battle but as a learning process and I will choose the importance level of this matter by my tone, my pestering or sheer General Patton level. I will not turn my eye on a filthy room because it is "their" room, I will not let them go to a friends house to do "nothing", I expect good grades, and I expect respect to others at the highest level. Seems pretty simple and my boys are great at all of them, then I started to realize that I failed at two of those "requirements" my whole childhood.
I never had a clean room the way I expect it now due to my "militant" style and grades....forget about it. I drove my mom insane, very smart but just didn't want to go to school or study although I did manage a 4.0 grade point average...............that is accumulative, 1.0 for each quarter, pitiful.
I asked my son after my "friend" meeting if he thought I should lighten up on some things, to my amazement nothing! Although we have a tight relationship I can tell that he was not 100% telling the truth. Bottom line, I do need to lighten up, my sons are smart, courteous (although not to one another), helpful and have a relationship with God. What more could I expect from them. I will lighten up starting as soon as you clean up the breakfast mess!!!