I am about to explode...

Have you ever live in apartment where your next door neighbors are very inconsiderate? Inconsiderate when it comes to making noises even in the middle of the night; the computer's on in a loud volume. What about bouncing back and forth on the wall anytime of the day. And oh, one more thing, how about parking the car very close to your car that when they open the door will give you car a dig and worse chipped the paint off twice in less 15 minutes. I feel like am going to explode. I knew it was going to happen, becuase I saw him last night having trouble parking his big truck, sure enough in the morning, I saw two paint chipped out of our new van, not to mention the long scratch made two weeks ago. Alright, I know living in apartment comes with a lot of inconveniences, but please if you are nice and considerate and sensitive person even living in apartment, you will try not to make many noises as possible. I always tell my son to lower his voice, do not run, jump, scream or play or bang his toys on the wall for our neighbor will hear it. It has been eight months now since our moved here in apartment; I can’t take it anymore. There were times that I would like to go there and talk to them about their noises, but my husband told me to calm down and be a Christian; what do you mean Christian? What do you think I have been doing here? I have trying to be patient with them the whole eight months. Isn't that enough? I am sorry, just need to voice out what I am feeling right now. My hubby is not home yet, got no one to talk to. Anyway, his morning when I was getting in to the van going to church, noticed the thing they did last night on the van and I was like, gosh! Please God give more patience and forgiveness in my heart so I forgive them and have peaceful feelings while at church; God did answer my prayers. I was able to forget at the whole thing and was at peace the whole time my son and I was at church. Then, just now, they have been making noises again; as expected; bad feeling came into my mind and am about to explode again. Yeah, God wants us to be nice and kind; but what I can do, am just imperfect human trying to be perfect, but with the neighbor likes these one, am not sure if I can hold this bad feeling anymore.

Don't under estimate children's ability....

I am amazed how children learn things when they are ready; we can not really force them to do things we want them to do when they are not ready yet or it will frustrate us and it will take time for them to learn. I learned that with my son, who is learning things in his own time and phase. He loves to read, solve puzzles and now play board games. Yes, he made us buy him a "Sorry" board game yesterday and since then we play this games like at least two times a day. I remember my husband kept telling me how much he wanted Jacob to play with us when we were playing board games; now he couldn't be happier that the moment he has been waiting for has come! I love spending time with my son; he always amazes me by how quick he is learning. One time when I was at school helping his teachers, I noticed during story time and singing time, he wasn’t singing or saying anything; and that worries me. He was just there listening. Then when he got home from school, he started singing and telling the story his teacher read with them that day. It teaches me lesson that children are really listening even though they busy doing something. They also really quick to pick things up, so we better be careful with what we do and say, for they are learning from us, parents and elders.