It's been one of those days. I called my "crazy day prayer partner" in the ten-o-clock hour. I'm eating chocolate ice cream during the girls' naptime.
It started well enough. I got up before everyone else, read the Word, had some blogging time. Things didn't get difficult until about twenty minutes later, when the first child woke up with a definite grumpy attitude.
As Sofia was incredibly fussy this morning, and Kardelen had her moments too, I thought, "I'm SO glad it's ECFE day! Sofia can play at our friends' house with their little boy, and that will keep her happy. Kardelen and I love ECFE, and it will be a great way to spend the morning. Boy, imagine what it would be like if we had to stay home. . ."
Enter the Minnesota weather. A ringing of the telephone was soon to break into my happy thoughts of the day. It was my sweet husband, Jacob, telling me that our road was like an ice rink, and it was raining outside. I vascillated between continuing with our plans, and cancelling for safety reasons.
Two minutes later. My friend who was to look after Sofia calls to warn me about the roads as well. I made my decision. "We'll stay home," I said.
But how? Two cranky kids and I'm not feeling well. Will Dora the Explorer be my hero today?
Okay, enough of my story. All this is to really to say, I found a great article while eating aforementioned chocolate ice cream during the girls' naptime. The author starts by saying that there are times she does not always enjoy her kids. Oh, 98% of the time she does, but there's that other two percent...
Sheila Wray Gregoire goes on to encourage moms of young ones that discipline is like a pyramid. But before I say too more, I'll let you go to the To Love, Honor, and Vacuum blog and read the article yourself. I really recommend it.
It was definitely what I needed today.
5 comments:
good choice to stay home :-) i'm glad your safe!!
Best to stay safe in weather like that.
And I know what you mean, I've had days like this too. We love our kids always but soome days it can be a difficult to like them very much. Its a good thiing they're so cute.
Thanks for being real! Sometimes we get the idea that our friends or fellow bloggers don't struggle with what we do. It's so nice to hear that sweet, kind, awesome-mom Heather sometimes struggles with grumpy kids and resorts to Dora and chocolate ice-cream!
I'm glad you stayed home too!
Hey, Heather! I'm glad you stayed safe at home, too! I'm not sure about eating ice cream alone, though! Aren't you supposed to eat it with a friend? ; ) I'm thinking of you and hoping that today will be better!
Thanks for this honest post and I'm also glad you stayed home :) It helps to know that other moms out there struggle with the same things I do sometimes. We all have our "off" days. Hope you enjoyed that ice cream (for me, it usually ends up being M&M's on days like this) and keep being the wonderful mom that you are!
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