Happy Mother's Day!

Here it is nearly 10 pm and I'm getting some time to relax and reflect on the day...

While drifting to sleep last night I thanked God for the chance to be Mark and Molly's Mommy and I was just thanking Him over and over for the blessings that they are! Dun dun dun...(enter screaming heard from hallway) I look over at the alarm clock and think to myself...'you've GOT to be kidding me' when I see 5:00am in bright dashed lights! Mark was awakened by a nightmare involving monsters. YIKES! What kind of mother would I be to ignore this, so as he's banging on the door yelling for me I am thinking 'alright, Happy Mother's Day it's time to exercise your mothering'. So I crawl into bed with him, per his instruction, and we go "night night". He laid there for about an hour laying slightly still/cloing his eyes/breathing hard in my face/kicking me to make sure I'm still there, and then by 6ish am he was pretty ready to get going with the day. I think that timing is right because that was about the time I got up to go to the restroom partly because my other child was screaming in the other room and that woke me up!

Alright so next thing I know I'm in Mark's bed peacefully sleeping ALONE and the door gets thrown open...it's Mark. (Entering screaming at the top of his lungs!!!) "Happy Mother's Day! Here's your gift! I'll open it for you" By this time he's jumped on top of me, mind you I was dead asleep for almost 3 hours by now, opened my present and then proceeds to shove tissue paper in my mouth. I guess he was just super excited! Mark, Molly and David got me the most precious necklace with two hearts and "Mark & Molly" engraved in a silver pendant with a little drop pearl as well. I love it! I woke up to happy babies and hot breakfast. Way to go Dave! Let's give credit where credit is due, right?! David and the kids also made me a card. That's going in a scrapbook!

We spent the rest of the day with David's family and then ended it with dinner with my parents. It was a very loving and successful Mother's Day. AND probably the best part was at the very end of dinner...Mark's pull up leaked and David got a little urine stamp! HAHAHAHA!!! BEST DAY EVER!

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." James 1:17

Thank you Lord for my blessings!!!

Happy Mother's Day, everyone!

It's become apparent some disciplining is needed...

So my sweet son is testing his limits with his Dad and I, which obviously is normal and I encourage his independence. However there are times that I'm finding I need to reel him in a little more. In my random web surfing this morning I came across two things. One, Kate Middleton, who I am apparently obsessed with...didn't think it could ever happen. She's so cute! And Two, some parenting wisdom. I found the blog of a girl I went to college with and I respect her sweet spirit. I haven't had a chance to check out this website or book yet, but she highly recommends it so here it is people...


www.raisinggodlytomatoes.com


Happy Disciplining!

S