What a day!

Why is it that our kids do so well and as soon as they think you are going to tell someone something positive or just after you do they do the exact opposite of what we were praising them for? I know it is God's great sense of humor. Funny how I find it very difficult to laugh at that moment. I still love them of course I just begin to feel frustrated and exhausted.
This is when God reminds me they are here for his purpose and not mine no matter what my judgmental world around me thinks. I know I still have to teach them right from wrong and sadly punish them when they do wrong, but their outcome is out of my hands. I have started to turn them and their "issues" over to God everyday sinec I tend to pick them back up out of his to do box in the afternoon when they are having "their moments". I do give it back each day. God gently whispers in my ear remember me the one in control of those kids I LOANED you. I trust you to teach them my ways but what they do adn become will be up to that free will I gave them. I will guide them and it may be easier to allow that if you will remember that I am the only one who loves those kids more than you. Still I find myself frustrated when they mess up.
My kids really are good kids. They don't have any really big problems thanks to God's control. They are not on drugs, pregnant, prostitutes or even sexually active at this point. I am proud of those choices they have made. Still getting one to do homework is a stress and the other one does it easier but doesn't give it to the teachers. I don't get it. My friend swears that last one will become a missionary because she has bigger concerns than school work. She is compassionate and great with real life issues. She is a writer for sure. I am definitely her biggest fan here. Even when she does this my folks say wow is she depressed? They don't appreciate poetry or free will as far as that goes.
I guess I am off on a tangent because all I really wanted to say was isn't it great how God loves our kids even when we find them seriously frustrating and tiring?! There is a peace there that I wish I could or would choose to stay in everyday that I live. I will do the teaching and Know that I KNOW God will do the guiding more than me and I will have peace in their choices knowing they are a gift and I am doing my best with God's blessings.