Winter Gardening

 

Our salads are amazing. :-)

Does anybody remember when the twins were in a stand-off over getting dressed in the morning?

Do you remember it took Missy 10 days

and James 7 days

of screaming their heads off

and going to church in pj's 

before they decided to get dressed in the morning  before breakfast as expected?

I didn't make them.

I waited.

But we weren't exactly having a picnic while we waited.

Sigh.

I remember all too well.

I am happy to report that for more than a year they have gotten dressed without question 

before breakfast.

Does anybody remember that we were in a stand-off for three solid months

over toilet training when they were six years old?

I couldn't give in or I would be changing nearly 8 year old kids

poopy diaper to this day...

gag

It was the closest thing to making them

do something 

that I have ever been.

It was all we did. And when they had their first successes at three months

it was still a fight for months to come.

No one else had been able to stick it out that long.

And they fully believed no one would.

So, I'm just wondering. . .

if I throw in the towel on writing numbers to 25

and thinking through which number is greater

and adding 1 + 1

What does that do for him?

It doesn't seem right

but

the waiting is such a waste of time.

He prays beautiful prayers about his problem,

but he doesn't put his will in God's hands.

He's had a lot of rest time today.

He had clothes to fold, too.

And running the compost down to the garden . . .

But he went to bed very early.

He only screamed at me once for about three seconds

today and he seemed ashamed of himself immediately.

The only thing he broke today was his eraser.

He sat counting and counting and counting but he wouldn't write the answers.

If I tried to help he immediately started giving wrong answers.

Come to think of it,

I prayed for patience.

{Is this called living to regret it?}