JJ loves his milk. He loves his milk and he loves to eat.
Now that I’ve stopped breastfeeding, he is really guzzling milk. He’s having trouble going to sleep without guzzling a bottle of milk. The other night he had a big dinner. There were little peach chunks for desert. Then a little while later is was bed time. Down went a bottle of milk. It was a lot of food and a lot of milk in a very short space of time. I’m laying in bed on his side guzzling his milk. The lights are off. JJ is next to me in the bed (for we are a co-sleeping family) and all of a sudden I hear this huge puke. I tell James to turn on the light. We look over and there is a massive pile of vomit full of little peach chunks all over the sheets. Needless to say the next 20 minutes or so was occupied with changing the sheets and cleaning up JJ.
Wow. The spiritual lesson there? Everything in moderation! Too much of a good thing really is too much of a good thing. This is the second time JJ has overindulged and then puked everywhere. His stomach just can’t hold as much as he wants to put in there.
We’re still working on the moderation thing. Moderation is a bit like balance, isn’t it? Sometimes it can be a subtle line between moderation and overindulgence. It’s not always easy to see where one ends and the other begins until it’s too late. Sometimes it just takes a bit of practice and trial and error. We are all doing the best we can. Even JJ.
My job is to keep the “everything in moderation” motto in mind during my day and in my activities. If I am conscious of moderation in myself, my awareness of it in terms of my children will also come more naturally.
We learn so much through our kids!
