He slept in today!!!! Yes I know you are just as excited and hopeful as I am that this means he will have a good day. Boy, were we WRONG. Him sleeping in till 10am meant he was going to be cranky and clinging. Don’t get me wrong, I would love if the clinginess meant cuddling on the couch while watching Christmas movies all day and enjoying this gloomy weather outside. Nope, his clinginess means he wants to cry and be held in various ways all day long. Don’t even think about putting him on the floor either because the floor to this child means death. By his reaction to  getting placed on the floor, you’d think the floor was hot lava or some death contraption we placed him in.

After just two short long hours of Daniel being awake. I finally got him to lay down and take a nap. I know 120 minutes, yes I was counting, is not that long, but for some reason this morning it was. The teething and the mood swings and the “yes I heard you tell me no, yes I looked at you several times after  to give you an opportunity to change your mind and you didn’t, but I am still going to do it” attitude, you’d think we were raising a teenager.

The best moment as a stay at home mom is to put him in his bed, turn out all the lights, turn on his lullabies, exited the room, get through the 5 minutes of crying, and then to hear silence. Okay, well not silence because you have the sumo wrestlers in the apartment above you and his lullabies blaring and the monitor on. But just for a brief moment you have a sigh of relief, until it is rudely interrupted by a million and one things you need to do today and for some reason you can’t get anything done when he’s awake. So I gotta get started on my to do list! Until next time…..

“Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise.” -Andy Stanley