Improvement

While Monday was a pretty tough day, Tuesday was actually a pretty amazing day, and today is not so bad itself!!  Yesterday didn't start out great:  boys were both dressed and ready to go to our park play date, then Micah drenches Reid with the hose and we have to change clothes.  Reid was up on the counter and happened to push our panic button on the alarm, I got a call and apparently gave the wrong "safe code" word so my friend was called and the police sent out to our house.  Gemma was screaming her bloody head off in the car on the way to the park that seemed to take for.ev.er!!

But then the park happened.  Both boys played amazingly well and Gemma slept for over two hours in the Ergo.  Peace and calmness over took me again and the losing.my.mind.chaos I was in leaving the house slowly started to disappear.  The rest of the day continued so, except for Gemma's screaming in the car on the way back from the park - safe to say she hates the car right now, and I had a pleasant afternoon.

The best part??  Gemma slept from 1:40-4:10, all on her own!  What a huge answer to prayer.  I was even able to get a run on the treadmill downstairs while she was sleeping.  And prep dinner!  Cleaning the house?  Well, that'll be for another day :)  Reid, however, has been struggling to soothe himself sans paci so has only taken a 45 minute nap for two days - but again, an answer to prayer - he's seemed to overcome that today and is doing well for nap, yay!  And Gemma, while not sleeping great this morning, has overcome that this afternoon and is taking another good nap so far.

I need to write this down, not only to update the readers that I have, but also as a reminder to myself that:
1. God answers prayers, no matter how big or how small!!
2. I need to take things day by day right now because you never know how the events will unfold for the day.

Thank you to those that have prayed for me/us - and please continue to do so :)  I'm grateful and don't take any of it for granted!