Ah, Mother's Day. That day you think you will have perfect children who will show their appreciation for all you do by being their best selves especially at church. Let's just say that two years in a row now I have been seriously close to giving my children to a mother who could seriously do a much better job than me with them. Granted they were all wonderful angels before we got to church. The girls had done wonderful art projects at school for me, Alexis made me breakfast, and Thaddeus and Nicholas gave me great big hugs. Sacrament meeting started out ok. Rebekah was very vocal that she wanted to sleep during the passing of the sacrament. I took care of that by sitting next to her and explaining she needs to go to bed earlier on Saturday because she wakes up sooooo early (5am) in the mornings no matter when she goes to bed. Thaddeus was wonderful and helped out with Nicholas. I was smiling and then the kids went to Primary. I go to Sunday School and not 2 minutes later the Primary President brings me my darling Nicholas. He had been hitting. Some how I need to find him something to hit other than his parents, siblings, other kids. I have a little discussion with him about hitting, sit with him for a little bit, and then go back to class. Again, he comes back to me because he is hitting. I lose it and one wonderful sister comes to my rescue and tells me things will get better. It better or I may consider a change in employment. My hope is that next Mother's day I will not be in tears.
Karlton has totally made up for Sunday. I got a laptop and dinner and a movie. Star Trek is phenomenal! Quiznos is great too. I got Karlton a new stereo receiver and invested in fixing our PS3 and XBox 360 for Father's Day and Birthday since both fall in the month of June. We both got a new router/modem for our internet because ours died randomly yesterday. Boy did Best Buy get some money from us. Ok we are a family that likes our electronics.
I hope everyone else had a wonderful Mother's Day and a great week. Love, Leah
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I think my hubby forgot about mother's day but Geneva made up for it.
I have a recipe from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood called "Get the mad out" cookies. Whenever Josiah has a hard time with hitting we make a batch of cookies (some weeks we have a lot of cookies:). It helps get his hitting out and the cookies actually do taste better the more you pound the dough. I know it doesn't solve the hitting at church but it does help at home. Let me know if you want the recipe. I also make playdough and put it in a plastic bag. Josiah likes to squeeze it in the bag at church or wherever. It keeps his hands busy and not hitting his sister during sacramanet meeting. Josiah's first response when someone is sitting in his favorite chair or whatever is to hit. We've been working on this too. When he or any of the Sunbeams (I teach Sunbeams again) start hitting, I have them sit on their hands until the hands feel like they can be happy and not hit. It usually works - believe it or not the children like to sit on their hands.
I know it's frustrating but try to see it from your son's point of view. I've tried that with Josiah and it makes it easier to handle - not solve but handle. I have a hard time controlling my emotions sometimes and I'm supposed to be an adult. Imagine our poor children who don't even know exactly what emotions are and why they have them. They just experience something and react:). Anyway, it probably doesn't help much but I can totally relate:). I haven't had Josiah brought to me yet because I'm the teacher. I often tell him and Geneva if they spent as much time hugging each other as they did hitting each other we'd have a lot more peace:). If only it worked that way. I'm glad your mother's day recovered though! Yay, for Karlton:).
We love you guys and miss you! You need to take a trip out here and visit us:) Love, John, Bekah, Geneva & Josiah
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