A Normal Day

Today was a great day. I write so often about bad days, or trying days I feel I need to let you all know that we have good days too! Today I went with Enu’s first grade class to the zoo. We had so many parent volunteers that I was only in charge of Enu (smart teacher!) and got to spend the entire time concentrating on her, yet watching her interact with her peers.

She is so happy and friendly and makes people laugh so easily. Her smile is contagious and charming. She isn’t perfect as she whined about having to walk and was grumpy because most of her friend’s cameras had a view screen and hers doesn’t not. She tried to convince me that her camera was broken and that I should let her use mine! When I didn’t cave in she sulked, but pulled herself together.

I am convinced that she is an extrovert as she does get energized by being around people, lots of people. Her behavior was very typical for her age and like her classmates. It was good to see how great she is doing.

Even at home she remained positive and happy (even though she was nursing one of her paper-cuts. For a child that hates pain, she gets an awful lot of paper cuts.) We had a good dinner with no fighting and she is right now snuggled asleep with her sister.

This is a normal day. How I crave days like this. When the fighting is low, the attitudes are happy and everyone is good. Calm. Peaceful.

We brought Mita and Enu into our lives a year ago. It has been a long, hard, wonderful, year. I hope and pray that our normal days start outnumbering our “bad” or “difficult” days. Right now it seems that we are about 2:1 in favor of the difficult days.

The picture that I posted with this post is one of me and Enu together with my niece.

We have three copies of the children’s book Ten Days and Nine Nights by Yumi Heo to give away! Please visit our giveaway post to enter!

Photo Credit: J. Griffin 2009

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