Friday was not a very good day in the Bond household. Eliana has given up napping entirely. We try to have "quite time" each day, but that is a struggle. William is teething and going through separation anxiety and is an 8 month old baby, so who knows what's going on with him. But he has not been sleeping well lately either. Besides getting up all night long, on Friday, he took a 15 min nap in the morning and a 30 min nap in the afternoon. In between, there was a lot of crying and holding. So I was extremely cranky and not at my parenting best. I had been short with Eliana all day and was making her go to time out for any little thing. Finally I was able to get William to go down for another nap late in the afternoon. When I came out of his room, Eliana was building a tower. She said, "Mom, I built this tower for you to say 'I love you.' See the flower on top? My heart said I love you so I built this tower." Oh Eliana! I gave her a big hug and cried and said I love you too. How did she know that was just what I needed even though I had been so cross with her all day? (To me, this is a reflection of God's love - no matter how we much we fight with Him, he is always ready to turn around and say "I love you." There is sweet Eliana, teaching me things every day).
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| Eliana gave him a hat :) |
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| Playing Jumping Jack in the fort. |
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