Small Successes #13

1. I sucessfully and calmly dealt with the temper tantrum of the century yesterday from my 3 year old. There have been so many, many tantrums from her recently and sometimes I think I am dealing with them less and less well because I am just so tired of them. But this one particular big one went well (at least, as well as can be expected from tantrums). :)

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2. I didn't get upset with my husband this morning when I found that he had pulled an all-nighter for work last night.

That took some self-control! :)

See, I can't stand it when he does this because today he will come home from work at 5pm and go immediately to bed for the night leaving me to do the dinner and evening routine alone. I have done it alone for the past two evenings because he's been working late, so I'm tired. Hopefully, I can stay patient about another evening and dinner without him.

I am thankful for the work that he has and how hard he tries to support our family.

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3. I talked to my mom on the phone yesterday. A nice long talk. It was dinnertime and the girls were fussy and my husband was calling on the other line, but only life or death was going to get me off the phone with her! :) I've missed her so much. I have been feeling like I don't have a mother these days because she has been SO busy for the past 2 months with the Montessori Children's Center that she runs.

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So, I think these successes might be a little lame; "I didn't do" kind of successes, rather than "I did do," but that's kind of indicative of how my whole week is going. :) See other (better!) Small Successes at Faith and Family Live!