Just Time

Thanks to my 7 year old daughter, I have had an awakening.  She loves me. 

Many days I wake up fight to get her and her siblings awake, fed, then to school.  Then I fight to get them home, homework done, fed, bathed, ready for bed and then we rush through our nightly prayers so I can go do my homework and get myself to bed at a decent hour--10 o’clock usually.

I have had to literally peel this child off of me and out of the car.  I have had to get in the car with teachers to head her off at the pass so she will not run out into the road.  --THE HARDEST thing I have ever had to do.

When trying to stave off a temper tantrum I finally asked Emily what she wanted from me.  She simply wanted to spend time with me--like other moms do with her friends at school.

We made a deal--it worked.  I promised to eat lunch with her Friday if she would go to school without a problem Monday thru Friday.  She did.  When I went in on Friday the secretaries at the front of the school said that she was practically floating because she was so happy.

Ch-ching! She just wants time with me-her mom. The whole lunch time she was quiet with a grin from ear to ear. She was giggling . . .  yet quiet.  She was at peace--something I have not seen in a long time. I could sense the joy because it radiated from her very being.  We shall have another date like this.  Why?  Because she loves me, and I love her.