Today Israel got in the car & was so excited. A boy had asked him to play handball at school. Pablo. God bless Pablo! He reached out to Israel, asked him to play, taught him the rules & in one afternoon recess my little man's heart was full. I am so thankful for today. Israel has struggled finding his place. He is not sporty. He is not (yet) musical. He just is his little second grade self trying to find his way out of homeschool onto the big world of the playground where there are rules, and time limits & boys who push people down. Today was awesome. Israel had his day & I had mine. I got to babysit the squishiest baby, and make a new soup. Today Aubrey was feeling better. Yesterday was like a bad dream, only I wasn't dreaming at all because I wasn't sleeping at all & that was terrible. My night started with rain on my car IN MY GARAGE! It was bathtime. That was awesome. Then my daughter woke up and wouldn't be consoled. So I held her & nurtured her and cradled her while she screamed. Then she barfed all over me. That was awesome too. Then she cried all night long and woke up every two hours holding her ears. Then I took her to urgent care and paid for a 10 minute check up + antibiotics withOUT insurrance. That was awesome too. Then I got a starbucks & burnt my tongue and couldn't taste the rest. That part was over the edge for me. But tonight I am cozied in and grateful for the day and that those events don't define me or my days. I also read a great article on simple mom about not raising up "good kids" but "God following adults" & that made me cry because when Aubrey told me as I held that squishy baby to "get rid of that baby" I felt so much better.
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Katchen and the terrible horrible no good very bad day.....
antibiotics without insurance, rain on cars in garages, and burnt tounges.
I just read an article about not raising polite kids. It was so interesting, about how the Christian culture is obsessed with making polite kids, and what good is politeness if they aren't doing as an overflow of the Holy Spirit and how we should put our focus on that. IT was powerful and I knew you too would love it. I'll have to send it over.
Anyways. Glad that the icky day didn't define you either... Hope you have had handfuls of better ones sense then.
Lately, I have been crying everyday...be encouraged, friend, as you have encouraged so many of us <3
Love you
Randomly came across your blog and had to say hi- what a wonderful feel this site of yours has! Happy to have found you and can't wait to read more... off to check out some previous posts! Have a wonderful week, sugar! xo
Thanks Kimmie. I am a bit random these days on posting but doing my best to keep up on life. Thanks for checking in. I hopped over to your blog as well and will have to read through!
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