Oh The Guilt

I never knew how much I would wrestle with guilt!! Guilt over doing too much, guilt over doing too little. It seems to be around me all the time. Today Kinley had a little Kindergarten performance at school. Sounds exciting right? Everything was great until that end moment when the principal said thanks to all the parents for coming. Then she told all of the children to tell their parents good-bye. As Kinley was walking toward me I could see that we were going to have a meltdown. The bottom lip was quivering, tears in the eyes. She was going to pull out all the stops. So after a tearful good-bye she went off to class and recovered just fine. I left and spent the rest of the morning and a good part of the afternoon feeling guilty. It's so hard being a parent sometimes. Hard to do the right thing over picking her up and saying that she didn't have to go to school today or ever. -Kristy