tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3894499019352554244.post8011119967707935182..comments2019-11-16T04:04:01.706-08:00Comments on a child's eyes - old site: loving wellAshley Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679877146497960166noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3894499019352554244.post-88966292328406154242014-08-01T22:04:33.105-07:002014-08-01T22:04:33.105-07:00Thank you, my friend! I so appreciate your suppor...Thank you, my friend! I so appreciate your supportive words. I do feel very loved in the midst of it all. It sounds like you are responding in the perfect way to the individual needs of your children. Summer is just not the time to be overly attached to a routine, is it? Summer is the season to set the routine aside and love on the people around us.Ashley Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04679877146497960166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3894499019352554244.post-22462560892848610962014-07-30T09:45:44.788-07:002014-07-30T09:45:44.788-07:00Your last comment about being chosen as the Evil s...Your last comment about being chosen as the Evil sea witch--ha! <br /><br />But really--oh, I so connected with everything you said in this post. I am feeling like I am failing in some areas of life right now (like a clean house!) because I am choosing to make loving well a priority. Monday my kids were brought back after a week at their grandparents'. Normally we would welcome them home & then jump back into the way things "should be" in our everyday life here. But this time. . . at least one child is struggling with re-bonding, and I realized very quickly the first day that me enforcing the usual parenting things (say like, unpacking and putting the things from the trip away! or, say, making beds in the morning! and otherwise jumping back into being helpful around the house) was going to be received as unlove. So I decided, fine. So yesterday I didn't tell them to do anything. All day long. (well, until it was time for dinner and bed!) I also didn't get much of anything done myself all day long. I hung out with them and was present with them. I may have looked like a bad, lazy mom in many ways--but at the end of the day, I know they were loved well. I can't do that forever, but I had to at least do it yesterday. Might have to do it all week.<br /><br />I'm so sorry about the difficult season you have been in! I know you have so many people who love you in this area, and hope you asked some of them for help! If not, please remember to do so, and to give others the opportunity to bless through loving service. : ) That includes me!<br /><br />Blessedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09079902364989480862noreply@blogger.com