Why is it that you could receive a hundred compliments and the one complaint you get is what you remember and sticks with you?  Personally, it eats at me.  I dwell it.  I’m working on this though, I’m trying not to let someone’s harsh, unsolicited words bring me down.  After all I AM my own boss.  Not everyone has the guts to start their own business, small or large.  I need to give myself more credit.  I am the only one running this business.  I am the designer, the accountant, the customer service rep…the boss!  I know that I put my whole heart into whatever I do.  I’m going to take the harsh words, put them in a box and throw them in the river.  The compliments are going to hang on my wall in my office so I can see them every day! 

So why does someone feel the need to tear someone else down?  Jealousy, that’s my guess.  Isn’t that why girls are mean to each other in school?  So dumb.  And quite often I try to remind Paige of this.  I know that 7th grade can be tough.  She seems to handle it well.  She tells me that she doesn’t understand why anyone would be jealous of the deaf girl.  I tell her “You are so much more than that.  You are an awesome person, smart, funny and beautiful.”  She shines, she really does.  Sometimes out of no where she will repeat some of the words of wisdom that I pass onto her and it reminds me what a good job I’m doing as a mother.