I cannot resist telling this sweet and very touching story about my 15 month old baby boy. To start off I will say that the difference between my boy and girl is amazing. By this age my daughter was using short sentences and amazingly grown up and my sweet angel boy barely says a few words and is still such a baby. so with that in mind I will relate what happened tonight at the dinner table.
I put a bowl of food in front of my son and started to feed him. He took a bite then as I was getting another bite ready he reached out for my hand, held it, and said "pray." I was totally stunned, he has never said that word before. It is our usual habit to pray before we eat but it was only him and I so I forgot to and boy did he set me straight. I felt a little convicted and absolutely blessed!
I Just had to share that beautiful moment...
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
-Shannon Leah
Monday, December 23, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Getting my Christmas Cheer On!!!
It is 6:30pm both my kids are tucked in bed and it has been one of those days! You know the kind that you wish you could just skip and go straight to bed. I try to be thankful for every day and all the precious moments with my children but I had a hard time finding my thankfulness today...
Nothing tragic or bad happened it was just one of those crazy, emotional, kids are a little under the weather, too tired to handle themselves, parental nightmares that when 5:00 rolls around you have already practiced in your head the sob story you are going to tell your husband when he gets home from work in the hopes that he will tell you to go take a drive and relax while he puts the kids to bed etc. but instead, you get the phone call that he has gone Christmas shopping with the boys and will not be home until late. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ok count backwards from 10, cry and little, then put yourself together for just one a half more hours!
Now it is over and I am thankful for that and as of this moment I am going to change my attitude (as I am constantly telling my three year old to do) and get my Christmas cheer on! I am thinking comfy clothes, eggnog, Christmas music or maybe a little Bridgette Jones Diary and spiked cider!
One of my goals this month was to find the "moment" in every situation that I want to remember and am thankful for. Life is so short and kids grow so fast and when I have days like this I hate that I wished it away. For there will come a day when I am wishing for my kids to be babies again and will look back at these times with great pleasure. So... even though it was a rough day I am thankful for
-that moment that my one year old waddled up to me with a book in his hand and plopped down on my lap so I would read to him
-or when he gave me the sweetest kisses when he first woke up this morning.
-I am thankful for the moment my daughter hugged me and said she was so so sorry and that she was
going to change her attitude (even if it did take her all day to do it)
-or when she told me she loved me and told me that "I truly am the best"!
-I am also very thankful that they are both sound asleep and I have the whole evening to unwind!
And in the words of Anne Shirley "tomorrow is a new day, fresh, with no mistakes"
Here's to tomorrow and all the wonderful moments that we all find in our day to be thankful for!
-Shannon Leah
Nothing tragic or bad happened it was just one of those crazy, emotional, kids are a little under the weather, too tired to handle themselves, parental nightmares that when 5:00 rolls around you have already practiced in your head the sob story you are going to tell your husband when he gets home from work in the hopes that he will tell you to go take a drive and relax while he puts the kids to bed etc. but instead, you get the phone call that he has gone Christmas shopping with the boys and will not be home until late. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ok count backwards from 10, cry and little, then put yourself together for just one a half more hours!
Now it is over and I am thankful for that and as of this moment I am going to change my attitude (as I am constantly telling my three year old to do) and get my Christmas cheer on! I am thinking comfy clothes, eggnog, Christmas music or maybe a little Bridgette Jones Diary and spiked cider!
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| A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. – Anonymous |
One of my goals this month was to find the "moment" in every situation that I want to remember and am thankful for. Life is so short and kids grow so fast and when I have days like this I hate that I wished it away. For there will come a day when I am wishing for my kids to be babies again and will look back at these times with great pleasure. So... even though it was a rough day I am thankful for
-that moment that my one year old waddled up to me with a book in his hand and plopped down on my lap so I would read to him
-or when he gave me the sweetest kisses when he first woke up this morning.
-I am thankful for the moment my daughter hugged me and said she was so so sorry and that she was
going to change her attitude (even if it did take her all day to do it)
-or when she told me she loved me and told me that "I truly am the best"!
-I am also very thankful that they are both sound asleep and I have the whole evening to unwind!
And in the words of Anne Shirley "tomorrow is a new day, fresh, with no mistakes"
Here's to tomorrow and all the wonderful moments that we all find in our day to be thankful for!
-Shannon Leah
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Oh Parenthood
As a mother to a one and three year old, I must admit, my life is always full of excitement. Some days are harder than others but all days are precious to me. Trust me when I say I have been on the bad end of a public temper tantrum when every mother who passes you says "oh honey we have all been there" or just gives consoling, pitying looks as they walk by.
The more I read about parenting, the more I felt like a failure. I decided to start taking things one day at a time. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by looking at the huge picture of raising a child I started dwelling on just today. I am no where near the finish line, yet I have seen some pretty remarkable headway.
My three year old is a strong willed, extremely intelligent little lady that is always ahead of her age in everything (which, trust me when I say, is not always a good thing). One can only imagine the kinds of fits we went through with her, starting the day that she discovered her own will. We have tried lots of different disciplining techniques but without true commitment and consistency we made no headway. My daily focus now is "training" instead of just discipline. we run through training exercises at home. We work hard before we leave the house so the kids are already well behaved by the time we go into public. I will save the training details for a later date but needless to say I am seeing results.
My kids are happier when I am not a frazzled mess and I am not a frazzled mess when they are behaving. Now when I tell my little angel to try some new food or pick up her toys I hear her sweet voice responds with "yes ma'am", oh how that is music to a mothers ears! When my daughter was two I took her to her first swimming class and the teacher told her to do something and she said "yes ma'am" the teacher looked at me and asked me with unbelief "what did she say" I told her and she said she had thought that's what she said but had never heard a two year old say that before. We went to visit my sister, who has three kids, who are also my daughters very best friends and when I said it was time to go she said "yes mama" I was so proud of her and felt so good about the impression I was leaving behind. It sure beats the pitying looks I used to get.
We still have our set backs but we are true to the commitment and as long as we stay consistent parenting is going to be the greatest joy in our lives. I will be a happy, put together, at peace mother who never has to raise her voice because we put the time and effort into training these precious little angels that God has entrusted us to raise and raise them well we shall!
The more I read about parenting, the more I felt like a failure. I decided to start taking things one day at a time. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by looking at the huge picture of raising a child I started dwelling on just today. I am no where near the finish line, yet I have seen some pretty remarkable headway.
My three year old is a strong willed, extremely intelligent little lady that is always ahead of her age in everything (which, trust me when I say, is not always a good thing). One can only imagine the kinds of fits we went through with her, starting the day that she discovered her own will. We have tried lots of different disciplining techniques but without true commitment and consistency we made no headway. My daily focus now is "training" instead of just discipline. we run through training exercises at home. We work hard before we leave the house so the kids are already well behaved by the time we go into public. I will save the training details for a later date but needless to say I am seeing results.
My kids are happier when I am not a frazzled mess and I am not a frazzled mess when they are behaving. Now when I tell my little angel to try some new food or pick up her toys I hear her sweet voice responds with "yes ma'am", oh how that is music to a mothers ears! When my daughter was two I took her to her first swimming class and the teacher told her to do something and she said "yes ma'am" the teacher looked at me and asked me with unbelief "what did she say" I told her and she said she had thought that's what she said but had never heard a two year old say that before. We went to visit my sister, who has three kids, who are also my daughters very best friends and when I said it was time to go she said "yes mama" I was so proud of her and felt so good about the impression I was leaving behind. It sure beats the pitying looks I used to get.
We still have our set backs but we are true to the commitment and as long as we stay consistent parenting is going to be the greatest joy in our lives. I will be a happy, put together, at peace mother who never has to raise her voice because we put the time and effort into training these precious little angels that God has entrusted us to raise and raise them well we shall!
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