An Over Zealous Mom :(

"WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL WAS I THINKING?"

Sue was somewhat right in her comment about Ben being just like his mother. Although the poor kid is really like both his parents in that, he will do NOTHING he doesn't want to do before it's his idea. Potty training certainly was NOT his idea, let me tell you! Benjamin very rarely poos twice a day much less three times a day. Well not so today! AARRGGGG!!!!!

I quit until Spring when he can go naked! I hated cloth diapers, but I did it to save money, I hated cleaning out the "mess". I dont have to do that anymore, so then why would I torture myself with this god awful task if it's NOT HIS IDEA!

Will he start kindergarten in diapers? Probably not. I needed to get a dose of reality and a shot of perspective!

HE"S NOT READY!

Back to the store to buy more Pampers!!!

Ben's Big Day

I have been changing diapers for 17 years! I have had my fill of wiping butts for my life time. I have been brain washing Benjamin since he turned 2 that when he turns "3" he will be a big boy and he will then start using the big potty to "pee and poo." He would always scream at me "NO! SCARY POTTY! ME NOT DO IT!"

I would let him think that for the time being and at the next diaper change gently remind him that when he turns "3" that he will be a big boy and then he would use the potty like...(who ever)...then he would say "mmmm, nope...me small now...no potty!"

Yesterday the "big day" finally came; he turned "3"!!!! I could not wait to get started on this final phase of babyhood! I tried like everything to get him to put those "big boy" underpants on but he just wouldn't do it! So, with a patient yet sister smile I think to myself "be patient you'll have your chance tomorrow." BUT I WANT HIM TO DO IT NOW! Doesn't he know how long I have waited for this day? WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? My response..."OK sweetie, you can wear them in the morning." He ignored me and jumped off the bed and out the door he went.

Well today day went great! Benjamin did not want to do it at first, but then he did. By the looks of how the day went as far as times gone in the potty vs. times it ran down his leg, it looks like the day was bad, (in fact he didn't make it the potty once) but I've learned I have to count the little victories with Ben; like, he at least put the underpants on and didn't scream about them all day!

This kind of patients only comes with having more than one or two children I think. I would have NEVER let Danielle or Dillon get away with the things I let Benjamin get away with!

I can't wait until tomorrow!!!!

Kids Are Great

Aaron: "Ben you know when I get bigger and I play sports in school like Dillon, you know like 6th grade and 9th grade and stuff like that, I am going to be a black boy! I'm gonna be real good at sports."
Ben: "Really?" (only spoken in Ben language)
Aaron: "Well maybe I'll be really dark like Dad!" "And I'll be really good at it too!"
Ben: "Daddy do it?"

This is what I heard in the car yesterday driving to a friends house. I thought I was going to pee myself! Aaron was so serious!

God's Whisper

Here’s a thought for the day from Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions:

February 5 –

LISTEN

“At that time Jesus Answered”

Matthew 11:25

What an extraordinary way to begin this verse: “At that time Jesus answered.” It is extraordinary because no one asked a question, nor was Jesus having a conversation with any human being. Yet, it states, “Jesus answered and said, “I thank you, Father.” When you answer a question, you answer the person who is speaking to you. Who was speaking to Christ? His Father. Yet, there is no record of it.

This verse teaches that Jesus has continual fellowship with His Father and that God spoke to his heart so often that here it was not necessary to record it. It was Jesus’ habit, indeed His very life, to talk with God.

Let’s learn the lesson this simple text teaches. Just as Jesus was in this world so are we, and like Jesus we need silent fellowship with the Father in order to answer Him. The world will not know who we are talking to, but we will respond to that secret voice made audible to us through the Spirit of God. And we will recognize with joy that God has spoken.

Let us answer and speak to God, either to say that He is faithful and true, or to confess our sins through the conviction of the Holy Spirit, or acknowledge His mercy, or affirm the great truths which God the Holy Spirit has opened to our understanding.

What a privilege to have intimate fellowship with the father of our spirits. It is a secret hidden from the world, a joy that even our closest friends cannot share. To hear the whispers of God’s love our ears must be clean and ready to listen to His voice.

This day, may our hearts be ready to hear when God speaks. Like Jesus, may we be prepared to answer Him.

What hinders you from responding as quickly as Jesus did to the whispers of God in your ear? What does 1Corinthians 1:7-9 say about this?

He has given us every good thing to walk in His Holy Spirit - we lack nothing!

If this is so, then you might ask the question “Then why am I still having trouble with this issue? Maybe you should read James 4:1-3.

When we ask the Father with wrong motives our hearts are to spend what God gives us on our own selfish desires. But when we ask with a heart of submissiveness to our Lord and Savior, to please God, not appease our selfishness, then God is quick to give us the desires of our heart!

May the Lord bless your socks off today!

It's Good To Be Home

It was so good to go away. Lord knows we needed a vacation. But it's really good to be home. We had a slow adjustment time though. Some of us came home with the stomach flu. So not only did we have to re-adjust to the cold weather, and carefully pick food to eat but life with out "maid service" has to be the hardest adjustment, for me at least. I'm the maid here. I think we're good now food wise but can you ever really adjust to no maid service,... really? I feel like I was a little spoiled; here are few examples: Benjamin tosses his cookies at 7:00 a.m. all over the bedding and floor, I immediately call maid service to clean it up and "voila" there they are! We leave to go to the parks all day, the room is a mess in the mornings when we leave and then when we get home its clean again! I LOVED IT!!!!! Nobody else appreciated those maids more than I did I swear!

Writing out this post I am a little distracted as the Steelers are playing in Super Bowl 48 against the Arizona Cardinals! It's a great game! It looks like it might be a blow out currently the score is 20 to 7 in the fourth quarter. If they win (the Steelers that is) Dave is going to claim it was me. He made me wear a Steelers jersey tonight. I have never wore a Steelers anything until tonight. Dave's weird like that though.

So for what its worth... GO STEELERS!!!!