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Dwija Borobia

God was Sneaky When He Invented Kids

by Dwija Borobia on April 30, 2012 · 14 comments

Hey God, thanks for feeding me the ultimate food every week and filling me with the grace I need to manage for another seven days.  Because boy do I need it.

5) The bickering for the sake of being right with no concern for being kind

Which they totally do.  It’s a terrible habit.  “Actually, the blah blah blah was invented before the blah blah blah so there’s no way that so and so in history would have done something like that so that picture doesn’t really make sense.”  Yeah.  Painful.  I know.

Hey God, thank you for showing me how incredibly atrocious an attitude like that is. Next year for Lent maybe we’ll collectively give up saying the word “actually”

Yep, I still have a long way to go…but maybe that’s why I’ve got this pile of kids to help me get there.

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Dwija Borobia lives with her husband and their four (soon-to-be-five!) kids in rural southwest Michigan in a fixer-upper they bought sight-unseen off the internet. Between homeschooling and corralling chickens, she pretends her time on the internet doesn’t count because she uses the computer standing up. You can read more on her blog house unseen. life unscripted.

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Dwija Borobia lives with her husband and their five kids in rural southwest Michigan in a fixer-upper they bought sight-unseen off the internet. Between homeschooling and corralling chickens, she pretends her time on the internet doesn’t count because she uses the computer standing up. You can read more on her blog house unseen. life unscripted.

Tagged as: catholic, motherhood, patience, pride

  • http://nondomestic.blogspot.com/ Rachael

    #5 and #4 together today.  Fighting over a piece of toast because someone didn’t want to share his last piece.  Finally an agreement was made to share that piece while I made another one.  What happened to that extra piece?  No one ate it.  It was not even touched.  Arrrghh. 
     God gave ME children because I used to consider myself a patient person.  Ha!

  • http://www.naptimenovelist.com/ Rhonda

    Oh, FOOD!  Glorious FOOD!  Yes.  And that’s why God invented frozen chicken nuggets.  (Not that I would ever give my darling gift from on high something so unhealthy as a chicken nugget. Not me.)

  • AC

    A really super extra great one this time, Dweej – thank you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Megan-Karcher-Jeffery/700537010 Megan Karcher Jeffery

    Love.

  • http://twitter.com/HouseUnseen Dwija Borobia

    Only couscous and organic kale for us, Rhonda!

  • http://www.naptimenovelist.com/ Rhonda

    Actually, we do kale AND chicken nuggets.  Boo-yah!

    This morning I added kale (and stevia… so granola of me) to my morning smoothie (can you hear the crunch?).  It was DIVINE (smoothie, not the kale per se). The kid got some, too.

  • Becky D.

    Love it and NEEDED IT today. Thank you, Dweej!

  • Amanda S

    This article is so good it MUST be divinely inspired! And I am so over the bedtime drama right now. I feel like I am at #2 lately and there isn’t even a newborn in sight (althogh two people have asked me in the last couple days if I am expecting again which is starting to freak me out a little).

  • http://www.truthbeautyandgoodnessintheworks.blogspot.com/ Cathmom2five

    Yea, He is, He is…(sigh)

  • MightyMighty1

    I was just thinking about the whole “why not use eggs that hatch?” thing the other day! I decided that since humans can’t even be trusted to stick to their own eggs in their own bodies with their own husband’s sperm, God forbid it get any easier to outsource our procreating! Can you imagine how little bonding would go on for your average busy mom who “really wants to incubate” her own egg, “but can just never find the time.” Pregnancy forces us to bond with our babies, even though we’re too busy worrying about our needlessly doubled butts. :) I’m praying for a safe delivery for you. I just had a home birth and it was awesome!

  • MightyMighty1

    Just think about the possible incubation industry that would arise! Yick!

  • Micaela

    Oh the eating.  And the not sleeping.  And the not obeying.  Today, of all days, was a great day to read this.  Thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMommyMess Adrienne

    Ugh! #3 is my enemy right now!! Maybe kids are part of our punishment for sin? Just kidding! But, sometimes I do think God has a dark sense of humor. 

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