penance

I roared at them tonight. And when I say roared, I mean bellowed from the very core of my being - the tired, angry, frustrated, exasperated, unheard and unnoticed depths of my body and soul, from which I was completely and utterly and maddeningly sick of having asked, cajoled, coaxed, pleaded, begged, demanded, and commanded them to listen to me tonight. To obey me. And when they did not, I roared. I had already taken away dessert when fit upon fit was flung over dinner. I had banished bath once they started fighting with each other and throwing trucks over the banister. I had threatened even to storm out of the bedroom without a single book read, a single song sung, a single prayer whispered. None of it mattered. None of it made one whit of difference. So standing there simmering, alone and exhausted at the end of a lonely and exhausting week, I roared at them. I don't even know what I roared, something stupid about how I was going to yell even louder than they had EVER HEARD ME … [Read more...] about i sing it for you