This is my Angry Face....

This is a hard layout...it is something new completely for me... I have been pondering the "You Really Piss Me Off" challenge over at Dirty Scraps  being sponsored by Nikki Silvis for some time now....I lifted Natalie Elphinstone of the Lip Stick Chicks over at XOXO Girls Blog for Challenge #10 being sponsored by Divine Designs! I chose her layout simply because it gave me all the journaling inspiration I was looking for, I love how she utilized the page with her writing....

I have wrote and re-wrote my journaling...I have taken picture after picture and decided none of them worked. I finally sat down with my hubby supporting me to just finally say it out loud wrote....and instead of trying to capture my own face I took it back to elementary and drew it myself. I am breaching a topic that has LONG bothered me....a topic that I have brought up, hushed up, looked over, forgot about, and constantly reminded of.. This is not to one person in particular though there were certain people in mind, I wrote this for myself because there are certain people who say things they shouldn't and at this point know it bothers me...a "joke" is only a "joke" if someone is laughing...enough is enough..

"This is my Angry Face"

 Journaling Reads "There are no words in the dictionary that could possibly describe the emotion I feel inside when you say my kids are bad. But for the moment lets go with pissed…yes I am pissed off. Do you spend every day with them? No you don’t you see them on occasion so what gives you the right to label them as “out of control” because sometimes they act like KIDS! What makes you think you know them better than me?
Yes, SOMETIMES my kids are loud, run around, pull out everything in site, cry and yes my kids don’t always do what they are told. AND YES YOUR KIDS DID TO! Might I remind you… YES my kids whisper I LOVE YOU in your ear, RUN into your arms, pull everything in site out to PLAY WITH YOU, cry when their feelings are hurt… don’t you and YES my kids push the boundaries how else are they to know where they are?
Sometimes I WONDER if you all sit around and talk about how I MUST BE LYING when I say my boys are sweet, loving, and gentle… Sometimes I HEAR from other people how you talk about them… have you no SHAME?
DO you see my boys when they wake me up every morning with a kiss? How they walk holding my hand even at home? DO you see them sit for hours handing me book after book or following along in activity books because they are eager to learn? DO you see them kiss MY boo boos? DO you see them pick up their toys without being asked, offer to help me with my chores?
DO you see them how I see them? Obviously you don’t ….
Obviously you don’t see them at all because if you do you wouldn’t say things that were not true…you wouldn’t define them by there faults alone but embrace there talents.
Obviously you don’t see them because a wild and out of control “bad kid” wouldn’t  have the capacity to have learned at 4 what 5-6 year olds are just learning and at 2 what 3-4 year old are…
Obviously you don’t see them because if you did you would know they are gentle loving boys that show compassion and generosity to everyone they meet.
Obviously you don’t see them because if you did your heart would break like mine when you say the things you do."