It's actually a hard one to learn. It's even harder when the lesson comes and smacks you in the face...literally. And, more especially if your name is Gianna.
After putting the girls down for Sunday naps not once but twice(no, they don't always take naps other days, but we try to get some rest on the Sabbath), we were awakened a short time later to an urgent announcement from Emily that Gianna fell off the bed.
Startled and wrongly powered-up (you know the adrenaline rush and wooziness that happens when awoken shortly after finding that good friend Sleep), I was confused at how this could have hurt her. She sleeps on the bottom bunk, so it shouldn't have been much of a "fall". Little did I know that the tiny little girl had braved climbing the ladder to her sister's bed where she dropped off and landed on her beautiful face, marring her forehead and cheek. (If this child makes it through childhood, it WILL be a miracle! And to think this is our daughter and NOT a son!)
Sadly, after soothing her and addressing her injuries, we still had to explain the importance of that fifth of the ten commandments. It is proving pretty literal to "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
I know this is a continual lesson, but I really look forward to less painful ways of my children learning.
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