It’s times like these . . . that I think maybe I’m thinking and talking just a little too much about my weight.
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Category: Kids/Parenting
Tips, tricks and adventures in parenting two kids.
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Laughter
I’m finally getting around to uploading all the videos I’ve taken recently. This one features a happy, laughing Rebecca (two and a half months) and a singing, laughing Hayden (two and a half+ years).
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Learning from motherhood
Sometimes, motherhood is a treadmill. I’m running myself ragged, but never really getting anywhere. (This is why I hate treadmills.)
Of course, as a mom sometimes the exhaustion goes beyond the physical. Sometimes I feel like as soon as I get a grasp on one age or stage, everything changes. The minute I accept Hayden’s three nap schedule, he grows out of his third nap.
I feel like a passage in Second Timothy, “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” Or at least the children. (Don’t even get me started on the laundry!)
But for now, I feel rather competent—and I’ll enjoy it as long as I can!
Do you ever feel like you’re climbing a mountain of sand when it comes to understanding your job as a mother?
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He’s got plans
Tonight I was trying to tell Hayden that we’d get to do a web cam call with my parents tomorrow.
“Hayden,” I asked, “tomorrow for Family Home Evening—or maybe just in the evening—”
“Me busy,” he regretfully informed me.
…. Oh.
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Top things about toddlers
Now, I couldn’t leave Hayden out, could I? Although sometimes the toddler years are difficult, there are at least as may top things about them as there are best things about babies!
- Seeing them being gentle and sweet with babies.
- Three words: “I yub you!”
- Toothy grins and “Tickle me, Mom!”
- Spontaneous hugs and kisses
- The beginnings of empathy (yesterday, he told me “Don’t cry, Mom!”)
- The beginnings of imagination (can’t even begin to list all of his hilarious things he’s pretended this week!)
- The all-out, full-body headlong run—especially when his little feet just can’t keep up.
- Watching him learn every day, especially as he practices putting together sentences.
- The mixture of baby and big boy that makes me happy to see how he’ll grow up, excited about how much he’s grown already and sad to see my baby fading already.
What were/are your favorite things about toddlerhood?
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You don’t get it back
I think this quote pretty much speaks for itself. From A Touch of Wonder by Arthur Gordon, p. 77–78:
When I was around thirteen and my brother ten, Father had promised to take us to the circus. But at lunchtime there was a phone call; some urgent business required his attention downtown. We braced ourselves for disappointment. Then we heard him say [into the phone], “No, I won’t be down. It’ll have to wait.”
When he came back to the table, Mother smiled. “The circus keeps coming back, you know.”
“I know,” said Father. “But childhood doesn’t.”
What do you do to try to enjoy childhood today?