3.7.11

time for patience


Looking back on tonight's events:
sleep deprived children, overtired mother, father off to camp for a week... 
sleep deprived children, overtired mother, crying children, crying mother.
(doesn't get much better after that).
       and reviewing the ugly bedtime battle....
I wish, during the worst of it, I could have somehow pressed *pause*.

Stopped time.
Held myself back, taken a deep breath.....
and THEN proceeded with caution.

But Caution, like self-control, and patience; is a virtue I still struggle to find in my
(limited) emotional tool-kit.

Tomorrow evening, when things begin to look like another bad t.v. rerun... I should just try lightening up (hey guys, you want to eat your entire tube of toothpaste? sure why not? I do that too occasionally when I can't sleep)...


or better yet, call for backup (who could resist that pretty face).

{** Bought this book because I loved the title...but sold it at a garage sale before reading it. Mistake?!?}

2 comments:

Deanne said...

I'd be your back up, for some reason it is easier to have patience for other kids than my own.
Some days I wish I could have a redo. I lose my mind most days. Maybe I should look for that book while I garage sale this summer.

Colleen Epp said...

Thank you. That's my evening tonight. And re: the book - it's one of the few parenting books I've read in recent years, although I've purchased QUITE a few. Definitely worth purchasing another copy!

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