He’s had terrible stomach pain etc (ugh) and has lost about 3 Kg since his return. All week off work, and too sick to do very much at all. So much for life getting easier when Daddy comes home!
My girls haven’t been all that well either, especially little Hannah and Leila. Hannah has had temperatures and very clingy days with a bad cough. I am so glad that Granny is my child care person when I go to work. My clinics are so full, and many patients have had their appointments moved around several times recently. With no free clinic spots in the short term future I was loathe to cancel my clinics. Couldn’t have gone to work without Granny, knowing she and Hannah adore each other, and that good care would be taken of my little sick angel.
Mother’s day has been pleasant. I was called in to work last night and lost about 3 hours of my evening. This made for a late night, so I felt very spoiled and grateful for my substantial afternoon nap today (and the girls left me alone too!).
We hadn’t enough time this morning for fancy breakfasts as I got out of bed late, and we had to get to church early for a primary prelude (our primary kids sang really well, people were impressed!).
I got some hand made cards, and a paper flower, and Damien gave me perfume and some chocolate coated ginger. Yum!
Tonight we had a family home evening on “peaceability”. We listened to an “Alexander’s amazing adventure, while giving each other hand, foot and back massages. We needed this topic, because of all the fighting going on between Leila and Bethany at the moment. They had to be separated at Dancing yesterday, and it is getting beyond a joke here at home on occasion. Hannah is copying too, so I’m trying to crack-down on it now.
We sang “Love and Home” and talked about love, empathy and restraint being the cure for hate and envy.
After the Tim-tams, Damien was doing some abdominal exercises on the lounge room floor, and Hannah lay down beside him and copied. Leila joined in too, but my photograph of that was even worse than this one. It was very cute to watch.
2 comments:
Now I know Damien has been sick and everything, but when I lay down to do an ab. workout, the girls balance on my legs... bending and straightening, raising and lowering Jocelyn who is laying on my shins is a fabulous workout... having your daughter on the floor beside you is just cheating!
Good luck with the peacability!
It definately isn't always easy to juggle the emotional committments of work with the needs of family. Oh that every family had a Granny like ours.
Like you, we have been working really hard on creating a house of 'peacability'. I know that this can happen, it's meantion alot in the scriptures as council to parents. But it sure does take alot of prayer, conscious effort, prayer, strategies, prayer and devine intervention. We have however, begun to notice a change in our home (and so have the children). I'm sure our family scripture reading and prayer has helped get us off to a great start each morning.
Keep with it, the changes will come it just takes time and alot of hard, focussed and continuous effort on our part. :)xx
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