Following through

I think it's fair to say that I stink at keeping up with a blog! I forget about it in all honesty. Life continues to move forward for us. I think at times every mom finds herself being nominated for "meanest mom in the world" award. I have won that award more times than I can count. There seems to be a fine line between following through on threats and being just plain mean. Case in point, Tanner had a science test this last week. His teacher was nice enough to give us advance notice about it. I told Tanner that if he didn't do well, he wouldn't be playing soccer this weekend. (big threat!) Well, he came home announcing that he had failed the test. Granted there were some things that happened that didn't help matters, but the fact still remained that he had failed. He was so upset. I reminded him that his science teacher has told each student that they can re-take the test is they would like to. So, we studied REALLY hard last night and then he went to school early today to take the test. He passed with flying colors! He came home from school all excited because now he could still play soccer tomorrow! Now, the question is....if he hadn't done very well on the re-take would I have followed through and not let him play? I don't know...I'm just glad I don't have to face that decision.