So, Gracie is six and talks non-stop. She can make me crazy in 30 seconds or less. She always wants to be right next to me, doing EVERYTHING I do. Some days I can handle it, others NOT SO GOOD. I think I have mentioned this several times before (sorry to repeat), but I have a HUGE personal space. I want space. I need space. I love space. I need to feel like I can breathe. Gracie is in MY space all of the time. It is not that I don't love her to death. I think she is darling and fun to be around... as long as it is not too close.
Last night I was stressed out! I had to get 100 CD's burned for church this morning and one of our computers was out of commission. The other computer was so slow at burning the CD's. I could only burn 6-7 CD's each hour... that equates to a lot of hours. Well there was Gracie, trying to sit on the same chair I was sitting on, talking non-stop, wanting to touch every CD I put in or took out of the computer. It was taking everything in me not to lose my temper and scream at her. By 8:00 pm I had burned less than 20 of the CD's. My boys were crying that they were starving and needed to eat. I left the table and started making dinner. I tried to get a load of laundry started while dinner was cooking. When I was finished, I came back over to the table to find 3 more CD's burned and another on it's way. There sat Little Lou putting labels on the CD's she had burned and putting them in their jackets. I asked her if she even knew what she was doing. She walked me through the process. It was perfect. She said, "I watched you do it mom, and I know what to do". She sat at the table until midnight last night burning CD's. At one point Garrett came over to help. She told him he could put the labels on the CD's. After his first attempt she fired him. He had not taken his time to put the label on straight! She was so careful to do everything right. I just let her take over and she was so proud of the work she was doing. And I was able to get a couple of other projects finished that had been pushed aside all weekend.
I really am so grateful for this little girl. She is very smart. She is very helpful (if I will let her be). She loves unconditionally. She is witty and fun. After watching her last night, and seeing how much she wants to be a part of what I am doing... I have realized I need to focus on her good qualities more and be grateful I have her to share my space with.
6 comments:
What a darling little girl, I'm teary. She is so sweet and smart and "with it", you are a lucky mom even if you don't think so sometimes. Thanks for sharing this cute story, I can just picture the whole thing...so cute.
i got a litle teary as I read this. Maybe because I am alone again today...NO husband...NO children...or because I realized that I do the same thing. I blow off the kids, am NOT patient with them and never let them help when they ask...I really NEED to allow them to be with me, help me and learn from me!
I loved this post...thanks for waking me up a little!
Thats too sweet. And it also makes me feel bad that it took so much work to do those CD's...but when they sound like angels during the primary program it will all be worth it! Next year we will divide and conquer or just start Gracie on them early in the day! Thanks for all you do and you did a wonderful sharing time that I bragged to Kyle about.
OH.... how cute. I related to this story through and through as I have a Gracie only 4000 times more annoying...but she too can do anything and I know I will be unbelievably proud of her one day. Until then, I will continue to breathe deeply and enjoy ALL the time we get to spend together.
Hi there I hope that you don't mind that I am a bit of a blog stalker. I so enjoy your sweet sister and I am so thankful to have her for my sister in law. I also really love your whole family you are all so fun and kind. Brent is very very lucky to have such great in laws!
I wanted to first off tell you Happy Belated Birthday! I also wanted to tell you that you are one amazing lady!
I always enjoy your reading your posts but this one really touched me. I too have a sweet clingy daughter and I too need space and my alone time. I think it's because I'm an only child I am not used to someone under me all the time. I got a little teary eyed reading this post partly because I so relate to the whole post and probably the other reason because I'm PMSing (i hate hormones)! I think you are a great mom and I appreciated you sharing this post and reminding me to have a little more patience with all of my childern.
Have a great day,
JoLynn Ellsworth
(Kami's favorite sister in law)
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Happy Belated Birthday! You are darling! I love the photo of you and your Daddy on your moms blog! Tooo cute. And wow that Gracie is precious. What I wouldn't give to have had a daughter. This post was so fun to read and i think I read it three times. Hugs to you all Sophia~
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