So, the last few days have felt like everything I've taught Jessica and Kaitlyn have been lost. Where are the sweet little girls that just needed one warning of time out to obey? Instead I find myself asking/pleading multiple times for them to pick something up, sit down, go potty in the potty not on the floor, not to pick their nose, stop pushing/pulling/pinching/sitting/slapping sisters, an so forth... to get a response clear as day, "no". I take a deep breath as my face begins heating up matching Texas Summer, pause a while, look deep into their eyes and with a stern tone ask again... After a pause with them looking around thinking about how to respond, a soft "no" comes out. So, then I give them a choice... Obey or sit in time out. This choice is easy, RIGHT?! Apparently not always! Following their disobedience I place them in time out and things begin escalating... They won't sit in time out so I give a warning to stay in time out or get a swat on their bottom. Thankfully they don't go further... But, REALLY?!?! So by the end of the week I'm not sure who will survive, me or the girls... well, more like the end of the day...
Poor daddy... gets home from a hard day at work to a worn out wife ready to pass the torch, aka- girls, for a break.
Yes, life in the Harris Household is more like a zoo than anything else. My prayer is that the Lord teaches me to be the mother I need to be... Because DANG!!!! I cannot do it ALONE!!!!
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