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November 25, 2010

Last night, my son woke up several times in the middle of night for several reasons:
- wanting to have a clean diaper (even when he was dry and the diaper was clean)
- wanted me to lay down with him
- wanted me to help him find his red car *he slept holding it and it fell on the side of the bed)

I was exhausted on the last call he made where he was screaming mad.
As expected or not expected, I went to his room, yelled at him to stop screaming and stop playing with the car and leave it alone. After the first 30 seconds of my negative reaction, I have collected some amount of calmness,looked for his car, showed it to him and asked him to leave it by the headboard. I tucked him in, wiped his tears, hugged him, kissed him, and he said sorry. My heart melted like ice. I laid with him for a few more minutes until he stopped crying and calmed down.

When I left his room and got back to my bed, hubby told me my alarm went off already. I had barely 3 hours of sleep today and my shoulder is sore.

Now that I think about it, I regret my reaction toward my son. I will try to be more patient next time. I pray to God that exhaustion does not get the best of me and that He blesses me with the grace to handle the situation better and with much more love next time something similar happens.

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