It's Just a Phase

I have to remember that kids go through lots of little phases. LOTS of phases and stages. I forget this all the time and panic when they seem to be moving into a bad stage. As soon as we enter a "bad" phase I completely forget that I have good kids.

Example: Caitlin is great at going to bed. She wakes up every three hours but is super easy to get back to sleep. However..... recently she's been really hard to put down. She wants to be cuddled and snuggled and lies there as if she is sleeping, right up until you try to put her down, when she loses her mind and screams her head off. It is wearing me down, even though it has only been going on for two nights. For seven months my sweet baby girl has been pretty easy to put to bed and after two nights I have completely forgotten about that and I am second guessing myself and asking "where have I gone wrong?"

During moments of perspective I know my girls are amazing and oh so very good, but all it takes is a blip on their perfect little paths for me to start worrying that perhaps we've taken a wrong turn. I need to get over this because I think we've got a lot of stages ahead of us, both good and bad.