Catching moments

Allie is home from school now.  That adds to the chaos but also helps.  I was worried it would be more overwhelming having 3 home all day everyday and that made me feel frustrated at first but then I felt an impression to stop blaming having a third child home all day for the stressful, grumpy feelings I was having.  Allie can be intense, and loud and full on, full energy, full tantrum sometimes but she can also be so helpful, and funny, and imaginative and entertaining to both her sister and her brother.  It was a reminder to me to stop catching all the negatives and start catching all the great things she adds now that she is not in school.  She helps her brother put on his socks and shoes, she can hold the door for him, she helps him and watches him outside when they play.  She is great at keeping Brailie entertained-that is for sure.  They play and play and play.  She likes to help me in the kitchen sometimes and that is nice.  She is good to share with her brother, she can put toothpaste on tooth brushes and reach things that are up high, and lift her brother up in his chair and do his buckles.  Man, when I stop and look at it, she is such a benefit to me.  Ya it is tricky at times keeping all 3 happy and she has a short fuse occasionally and sometimes rallies her sister into a "mom is mean and we aren't going to talk to her anymore" strike, but overall she is my little blessing and I am grateful for the reminder to catch her good things more than her negatives.