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another funny conversation (we are on a roll here)…
As I am getting Tucker dressed this morning, I notice that he is licking the snot that is coming out of his nose…
Me- “Tucker stop eating your boogies…that’s gross.”
Mackenzie- “Yes, that’s what I learned at school yesterday.”
Me- “What?”
Mackenzie- “Yesterday at school I learned not to eat my boogies because they have germs.”
God bless my children’s preschool teachers…they deserve a million dollars.
…jenn:)
…last night at our house went something like this:
10:30pm-go to bed
2:00am- Jackson comes to my side of the bed saying he has had a nightmare and is scared. I’m delirious…I say, “just get in bed with us.”
3:30am- Luke wakes up…get up put his paci in.
3:45am-Luke up again…apparently paci did not work. Galen gets up and gets him… tells Jack to move over to Galen’s side of the bed… lays Luke next to me so I can nurse him…Galen leaves to go sleep in Jackson’s bed.
4:15am- Mackenzie comes into my room…says she is scared and does not want to sleep in her bed…wants to sleep on our floor. I tell her that it is too cold to just sleep on the floor, she needs to go back to her bed…crying from Mackenzie. Delirious and extremely tired I say, “okay, I’ll just go get you a blanket.” Galen overhears this conversation and comes in the room…tells Mackenzie that he will go and lay down with her in her bed (a very comfy queen size bed!).
**At this point I am wide awake and cannot go back to sleep…after about a half and hour I fall asleep…
5:15- Tucker comes stomping into the room…goes into our bathroom…opens up the toilet seat…goes potty…flushes LOUDLY…wakes up Luke…goes back to his bed and goes back to sleep.
I get up… nurse Luke and manage to 1 hour of sleep because Galen threatens the kids with bodily harm if they enter the room.:)
Praying for a more restful night tonight…
jenn:)
…that a few months after the birth of each one of my 3 older kids I found myself asking…”What have I gotten myself into?”:) It is a strange mix of “I can’t imagine my life without this baby” and “This baby is A LOT of work”. I find myself in that same place again.
So I am going to make the choice to remember that I survived and that in the blink of an eye Jackson is now 7…
Tucker is almost 4…
and Mackenzie is 5. I know the truth of the statement that the days seem like an eternity, but the years fly by so quickly.:) Luke’s name means “Bringer of Light and Truth” and his birth has reminded me of the truth that I desperately need my savior every moment of every day. In the overwhelming moments… He is the “lifter of my head”…when I lose my temper and I hang my head in shame…He is the “lifter of my head”…extending grace and mercy…reminding me that He has been there and He knows.
But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head. Psalm 3:3
thankful today…
jenn:)
Tucker- “Mommy, when you were a little girl did you watch The Cheetah Girls?” (I have no idea how Tucker even knows about The Cheetah Girls:)
Me- No, there weren’t Cheetah Girls when I was a little girl.
Jack- When you were a little girl was it the “nineteens” or the “eighteens”? :)
…thanks Jack.
jenn:)
…Galen and I are both sick. It is some kind of cold/allergy junk and it is miserable! It should be a law that moms do not get sick!
my name is Mr. Crabby Pants…
and I don’t know why my Mommy keeps trying to do the laundry, or clean the house, or blog, or eat…doesn’t she know that her only job is to hold and bounce me? She left me with Daddy last night for about an hour and I decided to give him a little taste of what I do to Mommy all day. When she came home I heard Daddy say, “How do you get anything done?”:) I have this all figured out though…I fuss and fuss until Mommy picks me up and as soon as she does I give her a big smile. It’s impossible for her to be mad at me when I smile at her.:)
…luke:)
…Jackson told us this morning that he thinks we are doing a good job as parents…thank God…we were a little worried.:)
conversation with Jackson this morning…
Jack- How will I know how to be a parent when I grow up?
Galen- Well, one of the ways you will learn is by watching mommy and daddy. You will learn from the things we do right and the things we do wrong.
Me- Do you think we are doing a good job?
Jack- silence
Me- Jack, do you think we are doing a good job or a bad job as parents?
Jack- Ummm, I can’t decide.
Me and Galen- laughing…thanks Jack!
Jack-Well, I’ve only been alive 7 years…I don’t know!
happy friday…
jenn:)
…they’re heroes in a half-shell and they’re green…
Happy Sunday…
From Tucker…I mean Michaelangelo.:)
…jenn
…these words were a profound reminder of truth:
“My own experience is something like this.
I am progressing along the path of this life
in my ordinary contentedly fallen and godless condition,
absorbed in a merry meeting with my friends…
or a bit of work that tickles my vanity…when suddenly a
headline in the newspapers that threatens us all
with destruction, sends this whole pack of cards
tumbling down. At first I am overwhelmed, and all
of my little happinesses look like broken toys.
Then, slowly and reluctantly…I try to bring myself
to the frame of mind that I should be in at all times.
I remind myself that all these toys were never
intended to possess my heart,
that…my only real treasure is Christ.”
from The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis
…jenn
