Good evening to all, well I guess officially it's good morning, as it's after midnight here, but such is my life. I can't ever seem to get to bed at a decent hour...mostly because of my own very messed up sleep schedule.

In any case I was doing dishes tonight with my youngest daughter who is 7 years old. As I was helping her put away the glasses and plates and such, that go into cubboards that she can't easily reach, I was touched by something. She brought me some of our glass bowls, and as she handed them to me, she said "careful Mom, they're glass." Now I have to admit that my first thought was "duh, I know that" but than I just thought about it a moment and I realized that it was one of the sweetest things she could say. She has been listening to the thousand reminders that I have given her about being careful with glass things. Oh I could give you a list of a million other things that she just doesn't seem to have heard me say, but I won't...I want to focus on this blessing, and to me it truly is a blessing, because I know that my little girl heard something I said.

I don't know about you, but many many times, daily, I wonder if I'm speaking English, or if my girls need their hearing checked again, because it just doesn't seem like they listen to me, doesn't seem like they HEAR me.....Now I know....and you will too, if you just keep gently, and depending on the situation, not so gently reminding them of things...At some point it will sink in....and you will be blessed, just as I was blessed this very night.