Being With Young Kids Is Top On List

Who figured this out? The busiest time of our lives is the time when we need the most patience. Maybe this is not such an odd design after all. What the heck am I talking about? So, I am babysitting my 3 marvelous grandkids overnight and for an entire day. 7 months, 2 and 4 years old adorable kids full of energy. It has been wonderful for me to spend this length of time with them. I have nothing else to do but be with them. How does my amazing daughter-in-law accomplish anything with 3 little ones who have multiple needs?

How quickly I forgot what it is like to have 3 little ones. My 3 boys were all born in 27 months. So my life looked just like this not so long ago. Okay, it was 23 years ago, but who is counting? Little ones take patience; patience to feed the bottle, to feed the toddlers, to read, to play, to bathe, to rock to sleep. Patience is easy when I rarely get to do this and have nothing pulling on my time. But the young mother of my precious grandkids has so many demands on her time from cooking and cleaning to helping out at church and studying her Bible. What is awesome is God gives moms the patience they need for their little ones and the energy to get all the other stuff done as well.

Guess that is the design. A mother must stop multi-tasking and just hold her baby when he needs a bottle. When a 4 year old wants to bake cupcakes it is the right thing to do to stop everything else and mess up the kitchen with this loving, bonding activity.

The gift to put everything else on hold and just BE with her kids is the best spent time for a busy young mom. In my kid's nursery was a cross stitch with a wonderful poem that sums it all up.

Cleaning and scrubbing can wait 'till tomorrow,
for babies grow up, much to our sorrow.
So quiet down cobweb-dust, go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

Again, I am reminded to pray for young mothers and help out whenever possible.

In Him,

Joyful
3-31-2010