Things aren't going the way they were supposed to in '09. You see, my self-proclaimed theme for the year was simply "Serve." And here it is 6 days in and God is already expecting me to do just that and I have a major problem with it.
My 16-month-old seems to have forgotten how to sleep. He is regressed back to infanthood, and he seems just fine with it. I. Am. Not. However it dawned on me this morning, as I lie face down in my pillow begging God to give me just 5 more minutes of peace that this is part of serving. I wanted to serve the downtrodden, on a Saturday afternoon, in May. He asks me to serve my family, at 3 AM, on the first Monday morning of the year. I wasn't prepared for that.
God likes to surprise me. I wish He would choose to do it at 8 Am instead of at 3 and 4 and 5 and 6. I guess it took Him that long to get my attention. Well, He finally has it.
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Ahh, the joys of parenthood with two babies. By the way, sleep deprivation takes on a whole new meaning when they are teenagers.
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At least you know Bode is the last one. Just trying to stay optimistic here. Maybe he has some more compacted telephone poles or something. What are we going to do about ballet today?
I feel your pain. Since Cadon's surgery I have been up multiple times a night with him. We should find a 24 hr starbucks and at least enjoy part of the night up.
Thanks for your servant heart today. I owe you one.
Thanks for your perspective on this topic. Arden has decided that going to sleep is not on her agenda these days. Unfortuantely, with baby #3 arriving on Wednesday, that doesn't really work for me. Sometimes I forget that serving my family counts too.
Summer, I was just thinking the same thing today. My thoughts were more along the lines of - I forgot to give the kids their medicine, oh great one more thing to forget to do when I need to hurry out the door to take care of other things not near as important as they are...I caught myself grumbling about all the things I have to do when in reality God has blessed me with this resposibility. Once I caught this huge attitude problem, I changed my outlook and things went way better than I could ever expect...long comment...maybe I should have done this on my own blog.
Well said!
A good night's sleep is priceless, but it comes at the expense of eliminating morning/afternoon naps. My daughter slept so much better once we found out that she needed her tonsils out, that she was allergic to dust mites, and the reflux needed more control. We treat all of it, and now we sleep. Ah, the joys of momhood.
I feel for you...Kellan has been doing the same thing for the last 4 nights. Not sure what's going on, but I hope it remedies itself soon!
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