Meltdown #1

It's Week One of school and we had our first meltdown, Payton and I.  Things were going along quite smoothly yesterday.  We came home from school, she changed, set up camp at the kitchen table and began her homework.  It was more homework than the night before, but manageable.  Everything was completed but the Math.  She brought the papers over to me to help her and what followed was not pretty.  So, I will spare you from the details.

When you mix a sassy Payton with a Type A Mommy the result is typically never good.  The result was "no computer, no cell phone and, oh!  by the way, no youth group tonight, either!"  We both walked away without words.  A few moments passed and a teary-eyed Payton walked up to me and said "I wonder what God thinks of you not letting me go {to youth group}...because it is about Him."  I walked away this time, feeling sad, but I still walked away.  I sat down to my computer and saw a post by a friend on Facebook that read:  "God didn't call you to prepare your children for Harvard. He called you to prepare them for Heaven."  (No!  I am NOT kidding)  After pausing for a moment of awe at my computer desk,  I walked over to Payton, burst into tears, hugged her (for a long time) and apologized.  She's right.  What WOULD God think?