friends

Some of you know that toddlers can be challenging sometimes. Last week Truitt decided to hit the "terrible twos" hard and fast. He started throwing all out, throw himself on the floor, thrashing, and screaming tantrums. This is SO unlike my precious little boy that I have known for almost 17 months. So on Sunday at church when I had been through 4 days in a row of non-stop fit throwing, a wonderful friend came up to me and said, "Why don't you let me take the boys for you tomorrow so that you can have some alone time." I took her up on her offer. At first I thought that I would get some errands done. Again she advised me, "I think you should drop them off, go to Starbucks, and just sit and read. But if you need to get something done then I will insist that I take the boys Tuesday too so that you can have some down time."
Monday I did run an errand, Tuesday Aaron ended up having the day off b/c of rain so we had a date.
My point in all of this is to say how wonderful it is to have family and friends close by with whom you can share the joys and struggles of life. My heart goes out to people that don't have anyone near them that can know and understand what they might be going through, and offer a word of encouragement or advice or in some cases much needed time to reconnect with a spouce.
So the moral of the story is.....have friends and be a friend.
P.S. Truitt has been much better today.....let's hope it lasts a while. :)