About a Girl

Last night I was wrong...and it really sucked. We were half way through the movie, "About a Boy", when our little girl, Terryn woke up screaming and freaking out. Charise was really concerned and wanted to take her to the after-hours emergency rooms, especially to have her ears checked out as she has had ear infections in the past. We got in the car, and as soon as we started driving, Terryn was fine! This is when I made the fatal mistake of thinking that Terryn was really fine and had maybe woken up with a bad dream etc. I was very persuasive about this, and finally Charise let up.

We returned home only having gone for a long calm down drive (most parents will know that you can rely on a car drive to calm your kids down) and not having visited the Emergency rooms. I eventually managed to get Terryn to sleep, and felt that I had made the most sensible and wisest choice, and that this had all been one big over reaction. I even said to Charise, "If our daughter was in great danger, as the father, God would inform me, and right now I am not getting any signals from Him!"

Charise just to be safe, made a doctors appointment this morning. They returned home just five minutes ago...and have informed me that Terryn has a massive ear infection, her one ear drum was close to bursting.

I was so severely WRONG!

My male pride is hurting real bad. And to make it worse, I think my mother in law who is visiting at the moment thinks that I am very insensitive. I think she is right. Oh, this sucks!

Five lessons learnt from this experience:
1. Pay more attention to Charise's motherly instincts - afterall we do have two kids and she has had plenty of experience as a mother.
2. I am in a team - a marriage team and a parent team. I am not always going to be the one that God talks to about everything.
3. I am not a mother.
4. I am insensitive at times.
5. I need to get out more.