TGIF

This pretty much sums up how our week has been…

 

This has been a trying and tiring week for me.  Campbell comes home from school every day and seems to go through little stages: first she is cranky and bratty, then she gets totally hyper and silly and finally she goes into her sensitive mode, crying and whining before we get her to crash in her bed. I am so thankful she loves school and seems to be good for her teachers but I almost wonder if all her kindness and manners and good behavior gets zapped out of her by 3pm!  I am so ready for her to adapt to this new routine and ready for my sweet girl to come back home.

Yes, I had to sit down & make the chalkboard list with Campbell earlier this week after she had cried for the 53rd time over the littlest thing, gave me some 14 yrd old eye rolls, told me that when I popped her hiney  “that didn’t hurt” AFTER saying “whatever, Mom” at the dinner table. UGH!!!!!!  

So Matt took Sara Gray out for an errand and Campbell got to sit on her bed for a long talk and then I made her get her Bible out and look up Ephesians 6:1 so she understood that it wasn’t just MY rule she needed to obey and respect me, it was really God’s.  She seems to listen to Him better than me.  Then we proceeded to talk why God thinks obeying your parents is “right” and the difference between what is right and what is wrong. Hence, the board.  That I have yet to erase so she could look at it all week long.  I mean she’s 4…is this the beginning of some looong years ahead??

Did I do this because I am this great Christian mother…um, no.  I would like to think so but basically God kept me from killing her that night.  It was the bible or a beating. Seriously.  Talk about grace.

 

I am now at home with both the girls this Friday afternoon. Sara Gray is feeling a little under the weather, the sitter took vacation today and Matt has a CLE all day. This is how poor SG looked this morning…

 

Doesn’t she look so pitiful but so grown up too??  Campbell actually fixed up her pillow and blanket on the couch for her sister after she got sick last night. Poor Baby!

I think she’s going to be okay, this was her playing in a box this afternoon right before her nap…

 

 

Campbell just came out of her room dragging a full bag of treasures and just said “Mom, would you like to hear a Bible story?” in the sweetest voice! So now I feel super guilty for venting about her and she has changed gears on me once again. I am posting this fast so I can take advantage of this sweet moment!

Weeks like this remind me that motherhood is the toughest but sweetest job of all!