Sleep In Heavenly Peace

It's been a busy Christmas season.

I know.

What a redundant thing to say.

This is my princess in her snowboots

On a trip to the post office

To mail some orders of

Mary Kay and mixed media.

It's been a long week for her.

For me.

She is passing out the test lately

And I feel like I have gotten an "F"

the last three days.

I am thinking I need to read or listen

to a little bit lot of Dr. James Dobson.

Titles: 

{Dare to Discipline}

{Strong Willed Child}

At Living Proof Live with Beth Moore last month,

she said that she could tell the kind of day

it would be with her second daughter

by the way her hair looked when she got up in the morning.

Yep.  That holds true here.

And she's had some bad hair days this week.

Maybe it is time for us both to go to the salon . . .

Love her to death.

And that's what she says to me,
"I just love you to death."

Yes she does.

She's an all out

Live and love to the death

Kind of girl

And I love it.

It drives me crazy.

It drives me wild.

And I am still wildly crazy about her.

Even though my throat hurts from yelling.

Even though I seem to speak no other word than "NO!"

Even though I am having visions of thirteen...arrgggg.

She has been this way from birth.

If it was my idea,

she was against it.

Feeding her had to be her idea

at six days old.

If I touched her head to push her,

she reared back.

She is that way with everything.

She takes a completely different approach

than my other two kids.

And so I will take another approach.

And pray for help and guidance

And forgiveness. . .