Toddlers to Spare

There was a portion of my life not so long ago when I was closer to losing my mind than ever before.

I had a 5 year-old son, a 3 year-old daughter and then the two characters in the picture, aged 2 and 1.

Having four kids who were still toddlers was tough on me. I'm afraid I didn't have much patience during that time.

I distinctly remember this picture. Some dear friends of ours had invited us to the lake. They cooked for us. We used their RV. We swam a little. We flew kites. We had a blast.

But as is likely with a bunch of toddlers, there were squabbles. I remember how irritated I was when Bal started crying because Nod got to play with the pinwheel first.

I took this picture to someday show Bal how ridiculous he looked while he was crying. I was hoping he'd look at it in shame and apologize for throwing a temper tantrum.

Instead he just looked at the picture and said to his brother, "Nod why were you so mean to me that day?"

We'll give it a few more years.

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