Write a letter to Heavenly Father

Sowe have started making paper chains to count down the days to different events. We have also used it count down the days Sam goes to bed good. If she goes to bed good, she gets to tear one link off, when they have all been torn off, she gets a reward. That is how she got her wagon.

Recently she has not been going to bed so well, so her wagon got taken away. We just made another chain for her to try and get her wagon back.

Sam and daddy went on a date just this Friday night, in part to celebrate her first week at her new pre-school. While driving to Chick-a-lay (that is Samantha for Chick-fil-a), Sam suddenly said, "we need to make a chain for when my brother or sister comes...***That is not an announcement, just something Sam has been saying lately*** She added "then we can write a letter to Heavenly Father to tell him that I want a sister not a brother.

We don't believe that she is confusing Santa and Heavenly Father, but it just makes sense that if we don't usually see Santa and have to write him letters to tell him what we want, it must be the same with Heavenly Father.

DQS

So this week we started preschool/daycare. If you ask Sam how it is going she will tell you that she "hates it because there is boys there & lots of kids". Granted there are a lot more kids then what she is used to, but if you ask her teachers how she is doing they will tell you great! She even participated in show and tell; a big step for our shy girl.

The shy girl is just one side of Samantha; then we have the at-home-drama-queen side ( a.k.a DQS Drama Queen Sam) that makes us laugh and sometimes pull our hair out.

So we have had a power stuggle every morning to get DQS there and then we get the drama at night. I think she has inherited my gene of not accepting change very well.... the bedtime saga has returned to her taking 2+ hours to go to sleep; tonight when I told her to get back in bed and go to sleep she told me at the top of her voice "you are ruining my life!" That's right, I already got the "you're ruining my life" line, from a 3 year old.......Brandon & I couldn't believe it! I don't know where she got it from but I have to admit I thought she would be at teenager before I got that line; obviously a serious mistake in my thinking.

Here are a few other nighttime sayings for your enjoyment that are being said to me from her room as I am typing this blog:
- there is a daytime bug in my eye that is keeping me awake (as opposed to a sleepy bug in your eyes which makes you go to sleep? )
- I need a bowl because I just threw up in my tummy
- what are you going to do Mom? stay up? talk to Daddy? What? Are you going to sleep guys, then just go. Just go to sleep. What is your problem? Why you not listening to me? Guys! I know you are out there!........it just keeps going
- when saying prayers we said "bless Sam to have a good day at preschool tomorrow" to which she replied "and bless Sam to not go to preschool tomorrow" We almost lost it laughing at that.

She finished off the night with her statement “I’m leaving my door open, cause I’m stinkin’ hot”!

So if sending my child to preschool so she isn't bored & making her go to sleep is "ruining her life" what happens when I really do have to have a "tough love' moment? Boy am I in trouble......