Patience & Grit

June 28, 2021

Today, I’m grateful for: patience and grit

Today was a challenge. Calvin was in a spicy mood from the moment he got home…Well…according to Dan, it actually all started the moment he dropped his book in the car and screamed the whole way home….it was really all downhill from there.

This was a particularly intense toddler tantrum. We don’t often see those with Calvin, but boy, was he in. a. MOOD. Nothing would make this child settle down, and as Dan made his way in and out of the house trying to prepare our dinner on the grill, I recall a series of minutes that felt like forever as I sat on the couch, helpless, unable to soothe my sweet baby. 😢 I wanted nothing more in that moment than to just run over, scoop him up and soothe him. To let him know everything was going to be alright. But I couldn’t…and so it wasn’t long before we were both crying. 🤦🏼‍♀️

It somewhat reminded me of those desperate days of having Calvin as a newborn. Those days when you’re just (barely) surviving. Practically begging your sweet child to stop crying and you’d do anything in that moment for relief. Except in this circumstance, I couldn’t even do that. I can’t offer anything of value in those difficult moments, and hearing his hysterics still breaks my mom heart the same way it did (almost) 2 years ago when we brought him home.

Calvin proceeded with his fussing and Dan somehow managed to calm him down while holding him in one arm and finishing cooking dinner with the other. He even got Cal involved in the process letting him “stir”, and commentated the entire process to help with the element of distraction. It was a precious feat, and I am so grateful for his patience and grit.

Times are hard. Things are weird. But on these particularly challenging days, I’m grateful for my husband, and his unwavering patience and grit.

35 more days.

XO

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