Naptime 2-22-06

Nap Time

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It is naptime...my favorite time of the day. A few hours that I can claim all for myself! Jon is at work, Landon is asleep...and I get 2 to 3 hours to do whatever I want...as long as I stay at home . My days are filled with such an array of emotions. Most of the time I think Landon is the cutest, most witiest child I have ever known. Other times, lets just say that I feel like if he whines my name one more time I might lose it. Yesterday I was in the middle of straightening my hair and I went to get my straightener and found it to be missing. I knew he had hid it...but where? I searched for almost an hour and finally found it packed in a bag inside of a suitcase in the guestroom closet. Why he put it there, I have no idea. That whole incident was after he dropped my blush and broke it into a million pieces and after he had whined incessantly to go bye-bye for an hour. But then, on a dime, he touched my face and pet me like a cat and said, "Nice Mama"...and everything changed. How is it that these little people have the ability to make us want to lose our minds, but yet in a heartbeat can open the doors to our hearts and melt away whatever negativity was lurking. The older Landon gets the more I learn about the love of God. Landon can have a horrible day...where he does everything possible to make me angry, but at the end of the day when he kisses me goodnight and hugs me with those two pudgy little arms, I love him unconditionally...and even looking ahead to the teenage years, I know there is nothing he can do that would make me love him any less. And God's love is so much more infinite than that...it is imposible to even get one's mind around the vastness of God's love for us, His children.

Landon was such a surprise to us, and in so many ways he has changed the course of our lives. Sometimes it is fun to imagine what we would be doing or where we would be living right now if we had not had Landon when we did. But, honestly, it is more fun, and so much more fulfilling, to look at our lives right now and see how blessed we are to have him and how much joy he brings to our world. Sometimes the greatest miracles and the greatest blessings are those for which you never ask or expect...it kind of leaves God room to do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can ever ask for or imagine (Eph.).