These last few nights Violet has needed extra snuggle time to help her get to sleep. If she bumps her head she needs extra time in my lap snuggling to get over it. She likes to take an extra long time to walk up the porch and through our front door when I'm carrying about 5 grocery bags to many in from the car. She takes extra long to go potty, extra time to finish her fruit for breakfast, or pick out her clothes for the day, or choose a book for quiet time.
I was going insane for awhile.
I mean really? Could you please not take 1/2 an hour to drink about 1/4 cup of milk?
I dunno, but for some reason this is a thing going on at our house currently.
I'm SURELY not the only one with a child that has gone or is going through this same thing, but I'll tell ya...it sure feels like it some days.
I've been trying to enjoy it.
The extra snuggles is easy, I love cuddling up cozy with my girl...the slow walk, the extra time to get simple tasks done...these are difficult for me. I'm trying to best to look at things from a brighter side. It's teaching me patience, it's helping me slow down (literally and figuratively), and in these moments of learning I'm realizing with some sadness how fast she is growing up. Soon she will no longer want snuggles, there will come days where she'll eat and run and I won't have a chance to just sit with her for awhile. When she gets hurt I pray I will be the one she comes running to, but there will be moments where she won't and I understand that.
Taking time to savor and hold onto these moments has become important to me-though initially I will admit is not the first thing I think of when I'm trying to heave heavy things into our house while doing my best to not step on tiny fingers.
This phase in her life has also had me really pondering my overall well being. There are some changes that need to happen.
I should be going to bed earlier, not staying up till' 2-3am tooling around on the computer or my phone.
I really need to beat my sugar addiction. No matter how well I eat during the day, 11pm rolls around and I get some serious cravings. Thinking about quitting sugar all together.
I need to read more and do more of what I enjoy.
Exercise, as always, is a must but I really want to focus in on yoga, bi-lateral training, and enter some kind of competition which require athleticism.
I should probably drink more water.
I need less electronic media in my life, and more actual living.
Tomorrow is a new day!
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