"Mummumm"
I heard Chase cry out as I woke that morning. He was bouncing as hard as he
could in his crib. The blasted thing was knocking against the wall! I sighed
and walked over to him.
"What?" I asked as
I picked him up. He nestled into me as he fussed a bit.
"Are we in a mood this
morning?" I asked trying to get my normally happy-from-the-word-go son to
play. He just squealed and batted my hand away, angry at me.
"What’s wrong,
Baby?" That’s when I felt the teeth of my infant sink into my shoulder.
"Ouch!" I pulled
him back and looked at him sternly.
"What was that for? Not
nice Chase, you hurt me!" I scolded as I put him back into the crib and
left him in the room alone. Cranky or not, he wasn't going to do that. I wanted
him to know that.
When I walked into the
kitchen I had the shock of my life, or should I say the fright? The entire
kitchen was covered with everything you could think of. And in the middle of
the room were three little girls without any help about trying to use the
stove. After the initial shock I stormed over to them, only to stop to grab the
wooden spoon. I turned each over one over my knee using the object on them.
Making sure, I had their attention, I spoke,
"That was for using that
stove without someone around!" I told them sternly as I could, then started to lecture them. "What do you think you
girls are doing? You could have gotten burnt or you could have caught the whole
house on fire!" All three stood, handing their heads.
"Where’s Darcy?"
"In
bed still." Skyla answered
slowly.
"Then why are you using
the stove? Are we permitted to do that?" They all shook their heads.
"Then why'd you do
it?" No answer.
"Well?" Not one
answered.
"Alright, all three of
you are stuck in the corners of your room until I say otherwise. None of you are
to come out of there without permission. Understood?" The three nodded.
"By the way, you three
are no longer permitted out of bed without me or Darlita being up first, is
that understood?"
"What about Timmy?"
I turned to
"Timmy has not gotten
himself into trouble now has he?"
"No,"
"That’s the what about Timmy. He doesn't have to worry about it
unless he does what you three did." I told her as I sent them off to their
room with an extra swat to get them moving.
"Ouch! Don't do that, we’re
going!"
"I can do it again,
Kenya Elsa!" That made her run up that ladder a
little faster. This is NOT how I wanted to start the day.
I told Darlita that I was
going off for a little bit, and would be back after while. She nodded as I took
off out the door. I headed to my secret spot. Not one of the children knew I
had this place. They did have a horn back at the house that they could use if
there was a problem I would hear it and come running.
I fell to my knees and
started into a deep prayer, asking My Father for guidance with these children
and asking to make me more calm with things. I need
his help; I still don't know what I'm doing right or wrong. I do try to teach
them about my faith.
"Father, I even read
your word to them for bed every night, and have them
pray at meals, what else is there for me to do?" I sat silence for a bit,
knowing that he doesn't always answer right off the bat sometimes the answer
comes to you in the mist of things, and sometimes he does it right when you
need it the most. After at least another good hour, I stood and headed home.
I was sure that I had done
the right thing.
"Mamma, I have lunch
finished for you."
"Thanks Darcy; You’re such a great help." The girl beamed. "After
lunch, you can go play if you'd like." She nodded, then
called for her sisters. Not one of them made a sound. Wondering, I headed up to
see what was going on. They were still standing there but all giving me the
silent treatment.
"Go on and eat."
"Alright, if you want to
be like that then go ahead, you just miss out. And there will be nothing to eat
until dinner." Shanda was the first to move slowly but never made a sound.
Then Skyla.
"Come on" I called
to her. She just shook her head no.
" Go on girls, let her be like that if she wants." I
told them.
After lunch, I released the
two girls and told them they could go out, but they were still confined to the
yard and couldn't wander off, and that their pets were off limits as well.
"Here you go Bliss,” I
told her, putting her on her sheep toy. I had to laugh at the sight of Chase
pushing the toy with her sitting there. He sure was trying hard to walk
anymore. I take it his legs were getting tired of rubbing against the floor.
Both babies laughed as they played together. I looked up to see Shanda chasing
Skyla around the yard. I guessed it was a game of tag or something. I turned to
look at the set of twins that had just turned three months. Rei was grinning at
me. I grinned back. Both were content in their swing. I tried giving each their
own but they didn't like that; they wanted to be together. If you sat and
watched the two of them long enough you'd think that they were having their own
little talk. I reached over and picked Rei up; she started to cry as I took her
from her spot. I quickly put her back as soon as I did Scarlet started to suck
on Rei's nose. I started to laugh as hard as I could;
they did this type of thing a lot, like it was some comfort thing. Strange if you ask me though. I didn't mind it much.
Looking into the sky, I noted
it was getting late; bedtime for all was drawing near.