Today was not an easy day. Not that I'm expecting them to be easy with Dwayne working and coaching so much, but oh my- the patience that is required for parenting! I don't have the energy to type it all out here, but it involved a lot of creative negotiating, baby bouncing, deep breaths, and paper towels. Lots of paper towels. Pee, milk, water, poop, oh man.
I've been hanging out at Josiah's preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, since he was traumatized the first time I left him there on his own. So, Abby and I have become the unpaid help at Little Blessings! The teacher is happy to have me there and encouraged me to stay and let Josiah adjust before I gradually work my way up to leaving in short stints. He doesn't look forward to going and the first 10 minutes are pretty sketchy for him, but eventually he warms up to everyone and stops worrying that I'm going to leave him there and has a good time. I sensed today that he was more comfortable with his teacher, and we've been invited over for a playdate to one of the other boy's houses next week. I think it will be even better if he has a friend there that he looks forward to seeing.
We have also settled into a church here. We've decided to go to Central Community Church. It's a Mennonite Brethren church just down the street from our place. It's about 450 people- 150 of them are kids. Lots of pregnant women, babies, and toddlers, so our family fits right in there. It's certainly not faultless, but I won't waste my time looking for the perfect church that doesn't exist. We're excited about plugging in and getting involved and loving people there. I love their mission statement- "Hope and strength for the journey." They're very intentional about discipleship with lots of cool things like spiritual retreats and classes on mentoring and such. From what I can tell they also have a good focus on missions, which is important to me. We're already part of a small group, which started on Saturday. There are 5 couples, including ourselves and we'll be meeting Sunday nights at one another's houses. We're excited about that and looking forward to getting to know all of those folks better.
Well, like the apt title says, I'm glad it's bedtime. I'm going to go sleep- hopefully through the night, as Abby has gone 3 nights in a row from 10pm until 7am! Mercy.
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Well, I have a nice little poopy story for you and now that it's about a week old, it's kind of funny. Sonya, who still poops in her diapers, had done what we like to call a "holy cow big poopy" while I was in our room putting away launddry. So she kept playing and didn't tell me it was running out of her diaper and down her leg and all over the floor. Well, my little efficient 15 month old Hazel had taken it upon herself to dig way back into the coat closet to find our mop and begin clean up. Imagine my surprise to walk into the living room and see Hazel mopping poop all over the floor! Needless to say, we didn't make it out of the house that morning.
Melody
you never realize what role poop is going to play in your life until you become a parent.
its tough. e & b have their days too and we are trying to discern how often to leave them in the care of others at this time in their lives. it makes it harder when they don't like it. yet i think it is good for them too. sometimes the dilemma is when to leave and i think it is similar to the bandaid dilemma (whether to rip it off or take it off slowly). I think we all have our preferences, but its hard to know which to do with which kid and when.
godspeed, keep at it! some days are better than others. embrace either when they come and plow through! you'll make it.
by the way, when i say we all have our preferences i mean personally some of us would rip a bandaid of fast and some (less hairy types i presume) would peel it off slowly. point is, with kids you are dealing with another person and so it isn't easy always to know which strategy to employ.
ok i better stop blogging now
Yay for Abbt sleeping through the night! I hope that continues for you. We, being the very bad, indulgent parents that we are, have been giving Jayden a bottle in the middle of the night every night so that we only have to be awake for 20 min instead of listening to his screams all night long. Thanksgiving weekend will see the end of that. Screams and all, there will be no more feedings in the night so hopefully sleeping through the night will come for us someday soon too.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN!!!!
I hear ya Jen!! Kids are stinkin hard work. I think that other parents don't say anything, because they want us to go through the same things they did!! Thank goodness for the easy days!
And, like I tell Sarah after a hard day, 'Tomorrow is a new day'.
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