Yesterday was a bad day for me. Well, bad might be an understatement. Evelynn, poor thing that she is, has a double ear infection. As a result, her hearing is rather diminished. Most of my conversations with her go as follows:
Me: Ev, pick up you dress-ups please.
Ev: Huh?
Me: Pick up your dress-ups.
Ev: What?
Me: Pick up your dress-ups!
Ev: Don't yell at me!
Me: I'm yelling because you can't hear me!
Ev: What?
It's enough to drive a person mad after it's been happening for four days! The other thing is that when Evelynn gets sick, she doesn't sleep, she doesn't slow down at all. She just becomes disobedient, stubborn, and ornery. Majorly. So now I'm dealing with a disobedient hearing impaired child! Did I mention that Eloise also has an ear infection? And Eloise does NOT do pain of any sort. Plus I was hormonal. Plus I had things to do. Plus.... it was just hard. So I thought it would be a good idea to get everyone out of the house, do something different to shake things up a bit. I thought a movie would be nice. I only got to see half of it (we saw Monsters vs Alien, not worth your money even at the dollar theater) because Eloise was tired and when she gets tired, she gets wound up. My day ended with me being so upset with Evelynn that I started bawling while disciplining her at 6:45. Almost made it to bedtime without losing it, but not quite.
That night as Doug and I were getting ready for bed, I opened the scriptures to the last chapter of Ephesians, and the first four verses almost made up for the whole day and set us rolling. This is what is said:
Ephesians 6:1-4
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Honour they father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise)
That it may be well with thee, and though mayest live long on the earth.
And, ye fathers, provoke not our children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
These scriptures made me laugh, long and hard. It was so fitting after all I had been through that day. I think the Lord made these scriptures for all parents at one time or another, because lets face it, at one time or another we know that our kids would not be living very much longer on the earth is they did not shape up and start obeying and honoring their parents! And also, Doug had only been home for a few hours and he was fed up with Evelynn, and so he laughed hard at the last verse. He claimed that it was a good thing God put mothers in the home, because father's might provoke a lot more wrath all around if they were care givers! The Lord knew what I needed that day, a good long laugh, and He gave me one.
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