Show a little grace

Sadie and I have been working through some regular 5 year old testing of boundaries, and I've been trying out a couple moments of "grace based parenting"  After explaining a reason why something was wrong to her and what the consequence for the action was, I told her what grace was, that instead of getting what you deserve, you are given love and forgiveness.  She saw it inaction a couple of times (and I'm sorry to say, not in others)  So she understands the concept, a little...

So later tonight, my precious Telly was stirring up her usual ruckus when it got out of hand, and she crossed the line a little bit, as I felt particularly snappy, and I asked her " What are we going to do to change this Telly???"  "It has to stop!"  Well, my mature and very earnest little five year old walked right over to me, pulled my head down to her level and whispered in my ear "  I know what you should do mommy, just show her a little grace!"

Its amazing that in the moment, all my anger dissipated and I honestly felt like God used Sadie to calm my heart.  My second born, my Telly has my personality.  She is strong in her attitude, strong in knowing what she wants, strong in her emotions, strong in her desire to be independent and strong in her own idea's.  Which in themselves seem like incredible assets.  But together they are an EXPLOSION!  You simply can not do all these things at once.  Not if you are Telly.  She is a marvel!  I know she needs me to listen and understand how she is feeling, and at the end of the day, all she wants is to be understood, and snuggled.  Sadie opened my eyes to that today!  And for a moment Telly and I forgot about the chaos, and were able to enjoy a little calm!

Starting over... its a new season!

So I don't think it was tiredness as much as laziness and we should admit when we are wrong! I was, I just wasn't into it, but I am back on the blog bandwagon, (especially now that Mia has one!!!) no promises, but here we go again, I am a bit late on some letters to my kids, but they know I love them already! Other than that... spring is arriving, and it brightens my day/weeks for the beautiful weather ahead, with the occasional Calgary middle of May, middle of June, middle of July... snowfall craziness! I can handle it as long as it is sunny and warm!

So with expectations low we are forging on ahead, I figure if I have something that important to get out there, then it will happen... eventually!

If you can't tell I love"..." It does wonders when you don't want to go into all the details! Sometimes I do and others, well...

SO LAME!!!

Here is the fastest thing I can write while still giving an update!  I've been to exhausted in the evenings to do anything, don't know why???   Thus no blog posts, I fell asleep in front of the TV, ten mins after I finished for the evening around 9:00pm, WHAT???  To bad I can't even blame it on being pregnant!  Cause I am not!  The one thing I was good at... no super fantastic wonderful at... but I guess not!  Good luck maybe next time!  But if I stay this tired fat chance of ever "doing it" again!  Was that to graphic or personal???  Whatever, the Internet is shocking these days, so I just joined the club!!!  So we'll hope for immaculate conception, it happened once, there could be a 2nd, in history!  MANY posts on there way....