Monday, February 18, 2008
Being a Stay-at-Home Mom
Somedays I forget how blessed I am to stay at home with my girls. Occasionaly the days seems to stretch into an eternity and instead of enjoying them, I try to hurry through them. The last two weeks, though, I've had some special moments that have reminded me how grateful I should be to stay at home with Lauren and Emily. Last week we had a little bit of snow and when it started coming down a little harder, I called Lauren to the window to watch it with me. Lauren looked out the window, and then said, "Oh no, I asked Jesus for the snow not to fall on the neighbor's house." I explained to her that snow falling on the neighbor's house was ok, and that I was glad that she knew she could talk to Jesus about anything. I know that may seem really small, but for me it was a milestone, reminding me that she is watching and learning from us. Another moment when I stopped and thought about how blessed I am, happened two weeks ago when Lauren was riding her tricycle up and down the sidewalk, while I pushed Emily in her car. Isn't it awesome that watching Lauren ride her tricycle is part of my job? Emily is adding new words to her vocabulary almost daily, she doesn't jabber nearly as much Lauren did, but it is amazing to watch her learn. She is cruising everywhere and is going to be walking before we know it. Unfortunately she is going through serious separation anxiety, especially at church. She hates being left in the church nursery and cries and cries and cries and cries. For the moms who read my blog, do you have any suggestions? This has been going on for almost two months and doesn't seem to be getting better. I'd appreciate any advice! Hope your week is off to a good start!
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We went through this at some point with all of ours. My only advice is to be consistant with her and go ahead and leave her in the nursery. And then to continually assure her that you will only be gone for a short time and will be back. Sometimes it only took a few weeks and other times it took several months. Just hang in there!
Hey Mary! We've gone through this with all three, and are still going through it somewhat with Ezekiel and he's 2 now! I think the reason why our children have struggled is b/c we never leave them with anyone... well occasionally, but not on a consistent basis. Plus for us here, we ARE the nursery (between Tim and I), so that makes it hard too. So, my advice would be to leave her with someone on a regular basis, be it a date night once every week or two, a church nursery, the YMCA, etc. All of that should help, but still it simply takes time... some need more than others:) I'm sure you're doing a fabulous job! Di
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