Sweet Sleeping Baby

For the first time in weeks I made it through my nightly shower without Ben waking up!!! (Yes, I shower at night, after the kids are in bed. It is so much easier than in the mornings. But I don't do it because of that, I've always showered at night.)

Poor little guy has been having some hard nights. Of course he was such an easy newborn. It's like we're getting now the sleepless nights and stress that we didn't have in his first three months. As that spared me some of the worst of the stress of recovering from surgery while dealing with the hard task of integrating a new baby into the family, I'm really glad it was a pain deferred till now. But that doesn't make two am scream sessions much easier, I'm afraid.

I'm sure he'll grow out of it eventually; but I've not really had much time to write since my computer time during the day is mostly when he's nursing and I'm not good at nursing and typing at the same time. So a dearth of substantial blogging. So many ideas in my head and so little time to write.

And... he's awake. Time for bed.

May the Heart of Jesus Christ Be Our School

May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there . . . Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there and pour all my gall into Your Heart, which will rapidly consume it. I am not afraid that impatience will come to attack me in that retreat. There I will practice silence, resignation to Your Divine will, and invincible constancy. There I will go daily to pray to You and thank You for my crosses, and to ask Your forgiveness for those who persecute me. There I will labor once and for all at acquiring patience. I realize that this is not a short task, but it suffices for me to know that I can attain it by working at it. I ask for Your prayers, O sweet Jesus; You offered them for Your enemies, so do not refuse them to me, for I hope to love You, and love even the cross and my enemies for love of You.