This morning Amaia woke up a little bit early crying and very, very sad. I went in to check on her and tell her that she should lay back down until it was time to get up. She continued crying and would not lay back down, which is not normal for her at all. Usually if she wakes up early, I ask her to go back to sleep and she obliges right away. She seemed scared - maybe from a bad dream or possibly the noisy garbage trucks outside, only Amaia knows. I explained to her that mommy reads her Bible and prays before she gets up in the morning, so if she was going to get up early she needed to sit and read her Bible too. I grabbed her lift the flap Bible and sat her down next to me on the couch and she totally did it!!!! I wanted to give it a try, but I did not actually think she would sit with me. Amaia is not normally one to sit still for a lenth of time :) But she sat next to me and looked at her Bible while I read. She did start to get restless so I read a few pages to her and then we prayed together. We held hands and she prayed for a few of her friends and then I prayed for us both.
Basically, I loved every second of it! While I don't want her to be sad in the morning, I would totally be up for this becoming our morning routine! I'm not sure how I got so lucky for Amaia to be my daughter.
After our morning she was quickly back to her normal silly self :)
1 comment:
That is so sweet!
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