Precious Time

Most days I keep a little list of things I want to get done that day. As long as I get something on my list accomplished I feel good. Friday, Saturday and Sunday I won't have to worry about this. There is no school on Monday and the daycare is closed so Serenity Jade gets stuck with grandma for three days this weekend. Miss Serenity will keep me well entertained. By 10:00AM yesterday we had already had a big day. After she washed the dishes we played restaurant. She made me sandwiches with the sponge and the dish soap. She likes to make up words and she says the "English" word "majewel" means perfect and she made me a perfect sandwich. She thanked me for visiting her restaurant and told me that if I came back again she would make me her delicious salosh or jewelmoon sandwich. I can't wait. Next we played science. She mixed up a new drink for us to try. She informed me that this is how people make inventions. We named the drink Mixed Drink (grandma wasn't giving very good suggestions). This drink was made with water, milk, diet coke and apple juice. Can you believe it was actually drinkable (I said drinkable, not good!). Not only am I her lab assistant, I am also her lab rat. School was next and of course I needed to learn to read. With her help I was able to read her library book "Read-A-Picture Animals".


Today by noon she played scientist again and was working on a drink to help cancer. I just got done watching her puppet show which was a one act, one person play. It was very good and was obviously based on her recent, first time experience, with getting grounded. She was totally heartbroken that she would get grounded and couldn't understand why she had to be grounded when it was the first time she had been so bad. She went down the street to see if another little girl could play and she didn't ask mommy first. Of course mommy would have never let her do that alone. Mommy had no idea where she was and was of course very upset with her. She actually worries more about mommy being mad at her then her punishment. She did call grandma crying and asked me to tell her mommy she was a "bad parent" because she was grounding her and not giving her another chance. She was crying so hard it broke my heart. Of course I had to tell her that mommy was the boss and I would have grounded her too. She use to think that her mommy had to listen to me because I am her mommy. Now she tells me to tell mommy this and that but "mommy doesn't have to listen to you grandma". Oh boy, all the lessons we have to learn at such an early age. The scary thing is, we never stop learning lessons no matter how old we get.

Serenity is trying to get my attention - the next adventure I'm sure.

I'm thanking God for each new day.