Naomi has this habit of just going off tangent and getting distracted. Trying to get her to do something that takes 2 seconds always end up taking 10 mins, and that's after about 50x reminders or 10 mins worth of nagging. At least she gets distracted with her own stories and singing, and not so much negative things. For example, when she goes into the shower, she'll start to sing and hum, and she can enjoy that for ages before I remind her to start using the soap. On my first instruction to do anything she always says, "One more minute", which normally ends up being 10 mins, unless she actually thinks that's how long 1 minute is. So I end up having to remind her to start using the soap again and again. On average, I probably have to do this 5-10x before she actually starts using the soap to wash her body. Just incase you're wandering, no, she won't let me wash her, and it's been like that with pretty much everything since she was about 3-4 y.o.
As usual this morning I had to remind her 10x to put her shoes on while I was doing a thousand other things to send her to school. Finally she sat down to do up her shoe lace/velcro thing. Because we were running really late, I yelled "Hurry up Naomi!! Hurry up!!!" and you know what she said???
She started preaching!!!
She said, "The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, patience. Patience mummy!!! Patience!!!!"
V and I looked at each other, and we were trying so hard not to laugh!!!!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile she started singing this song on the fruits of the spirit!!!! Just peacefully, as usual, taking her time. Oh well.... what can we do?????
Galatians 5
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.
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