God Why?

Do you ever have one of those days where it seems like one event after the next you just keep asking God why? Then a few min later you think we'll maybe ___ or oh ___ was why . Today is one of those days!

The God why events started with Ruth being tired and not wanting to go to sleep. The Fed Ex Man brought Martha's New car seat. So we of course had to get it out and she had to play in it and wanted it put in the car. And she though it was great fun to scratch the foam off a packing piece so I guess the face that shortly earlier Ruth was covered in dog fur from the floor was the alternative reason I needed to vacuum. So all those things happened. And thankfully the rain was on hiatus during the car seat install. Then all the sudden we had to run around fast and get ready for her gymnastics class. We made it into the car just in time to avoid the big drops., and turned out upon getting into the car that the microwave time was fast so we were not late but early! Then the short drive to gym...Ruth still didn't go to sleep so I didn't have to wake her up for that we all "crawled" into front seat to get ready to get out in the rain. We got inside well before the big down poor. No one else was there for class yet so I got to take care of scheduling a make-up and checking on when I signed up for summer class.

Ruth zonked out during class and Martha had a great time playing with a little cohort Megan...they have similar personalities so it can be interesting but it was good :) I sometimes forget that my child has a bit of a aptitude towards the sport until she is listening good and things all click :) I hope she can continue to develop in her behavior so she can keep having fun...because man does she have fun when she's learning and doing great! So the rain lets up and I think maybe I can get Ruth in her seat w/out waking her up...fail! Donno for the reason on this but she is happily out currently!

Home we spend a long time preparing and eating lunch! I love that with removing "problem" foods Martha has started eating good for me again...well at lunch anyway! The world is not aligning for breakfast these days and dinner seems to be hit of miss. Well the down side to this Martha eating thing is that she is so distractable and active it takes forever! In and out bits and breaks. I was done long before her and she started eating before me! So I go about trying to get things done that need done. She goes off outside to push an imaginary child that needed a pushed again on the swing set and I take Ruth to put diapers in the dryer. Zeke promptly comes to steal Martha's food. So I angerly sent him back out side, finish loading the dryer and tell Martha we need to remember to crate Zeke for meals because "I can't handle this"! (A phrase that gets repeated frequently back to me). I put her plate up high on the counter and turn to pull a chair up so she can come get more...didn't realize Ruth was holding onto a glass bowl! Crash...mad mommy glass everywhere...dog and Martha banished outside...Ruth gated into the Living room. Apparently I need to do a better job at keeping my kitchen floor clean because this is like the 2nd time in the last week that God has helped me get it nice and clean.

So now I need to go back and mop when I wanted to be cleaning the unsold garage sale junk out of the garage so I can get the car in there again! Back to life...again doing a lousy job balancing it!

Raising Spirited Kids

I long ago discover Martha is a spirited child! And the book Raising your Spirited Child was recommended to me but the local library didn't have it at the time I was looking for it so I didn't get around to reading it. Well I found it at a garage sale a few weeks ago and started reading it last weekend while we traveled.

Yesterday both girls were having a car nap so I was reading in the parking lot. I was reading the chapter "EXTRAVERT OR INTROVERT: FINDING THE ENERGY TO COPE" and I came to the conclusion that some days the reason Martha and I clash and I sit and try to recover and unable is because she is STRONGLY extroverted and I'm mildly introverted. I need some time alone to recharge and she needs time with me! So that leaves my energy reserves sorely depleted and it gets ugly! Now if I could just get the time to read through the book and the brain power to assimilate it all we might be able to learn to get along! There is way too much good stuff in this book! It's well written for parent's of these spirited kids as you can literally read a paragraph or two and come back to it not lost! Hmm I wonder if I can get into one of her seminars! Now I'm wanting to get a the rest of Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's books!

I suppose if I can't get my recharge time I'm going to have to start singing one of the many Steve Green kid's bible song to get me though the day. His song Without Complaining from the Album HIDE 'EM IN YOUR HEART VOL. 1 was my matra when dealing with everyday life for quite some time. Come to think of it that's when I started being able to cope with life's challanges more. Welp guess I need to work some more on my bible memory though children's music!

Fussing and moving

Yesterday Martha didn't nap and went to bed before 8pm unheard of for her! Granted she still doesn't sleep through the night but anyway! Ruth on the other hand is having an awful time getting to sleep darn little teeth. Every time I though we might get outside I had to put fussing Ruth on my back or nurse her and she'd fall asleep...and after yesterday's crying while strolling I wanted a happy baby in the thing! So we never made it for our stroll today :(

Martha has taken to it's lying...saying daddy said I could when he never did or vise versa. So I decided that her wanting to read books...and we would read a story from her kid's bible on lying. Well the only one I could think of that was listed was Cane and Able. While she just loved reading it...I don't think she really got it. So I tried a different kids bible still no go but she seems to really like that bible so for like 20 min we read stories out of there motley over and over...she made me read the one about the Sumerian over and over...asking about the guys owies on the picture and why the guys were mean and on and on.

But Martha went down for a nap easy and I got to do some video footage of Ruth on the move. She crawled sideways (didn't remember Martha ever doing that but it was cute!), forward, scooting, and sitting! Poor kid is having developmental milestones up the wazoo...and a tooth poking at her little gum's!

I did wear Ruth during a family walk and getting her to sleep then having her wake up the second I removed my boby from hers on the bed...I do hope my easy to nap little one returns sometime before she turns 3...ok seriously way before!