December 19, 2015

I was a terrible wife and mother today.  For whatever reason, I just couldn’t do it.  Poor SJ was still sick.  The cough in her chest sounded really rough.  She was tired and fussy all day.  She fought me over everything — medicine, food, diaper changes… EVERYTHING.  And Jeremy was still pretty much bed-bound.  He bathed himself and moved back and forth from the bed to the recliner, but even that wore him completely out.

I was not the person I wanted to be.  And the more I interacted with my family, the more I made it worse.  It was one of those days that you just wish you could hit “reset” and do completely over again.

SJ is such a little person with her own unique sense of humor and mannerisms.  She constantly says “whazzz-at?” and “Oh-kee” for what’s that and okay.  She nods yes in agreement now.  She can say “turtle” like a champ.  And she’s really wanting to study each page of her books to identify all the animals and the sounds they make.  If I refocus my bad attitude on the amazing wonder that she brings into my world, I genuinely love being with her and sharing in her curiosity of all that life has to offer.

Her vocabulary just blows me away.  Every single day she picks up at least one new word – while retaining all the others she has already learned!!  No wonder they say that it’s best to introduce languages to children while they’re really young.