If I tried to tell you all of my wonderful stories that have happened to us since the last time I posted my blog would never end. I think I'll just take it one story at a time. This story happened last Monday.
Kately, our 2-year-old, is in love with her binky. She took to a binky right away and absolutely loves it. I had decided to ween her from it before Emberly was born, but the few months before the baby came Kately was in the hospital twice and it was very nice for her to have the binky. She then broke her leg last fall and was in the hospital again in March when she was diagnosed with diabetes. With all of these traumatic experiences in her life I decided to just let her have the binky.
Well, it has been several months since her last hospital visit and I finally decided that it was time for her to say 'farewell' to the binky. I have been nervous to do this because I didn't want to put up with the fighting and crying that would come afterwards. After looking at Pinterest, I decided to have a visit from the Binky Fairy. We told Kately 3 days before that the Binky Fairy would be coming on Monday at she would take all of her binkies and give them to babies who needed them and then she would give Kately a big surprise. Kate was very excited!
That morning we found all of the binkies that we could around the house, including the one wedged between the wall and her bed, the one she hid inside her Fisher-Price barn and silo, and the few others that we found in random other places around the house. It was a blessing that her sister Emberly takes a different kind of binky so we could distingish between the two kinds.
After collecting all of the binkies, the girls drew pictures for the Binky Fairy and we put the pictures, a note and a box full of binkies our doorstep outside waiting for the Binky Fairy. My mother came and took us to her house, it took some convincing to get Kate to leave the box of binkies on our porch, but she finally did.
While we were at my mother's house I got a text from my upstairs renter. He asked me if he was supposed to do something with these binkies and if he was supposed to make something magical happen...oops I meant to call him. He cleared the doorstep for me. But, the Binky Fairy was tricky, she came to my mother's house and dropped off the gift.
The Binky Fairy gave Kately a Princess doll and sister Emberly a lamby. The Fairy decided that it would be easier if little sister got a gift as well so there wouldn't be any fighting. Kately loved the doll.
Later that night she cried herself to sleep in my arms because she wanted her binky back. Luckily I could honestly say that I didn't have the binkies and I could not get to them, it was the truth! She woke up a 3 times that night with a cough, I think she kind of made herself sick from crying so much. Each time we settled her down and she went right back to sleep. She never asked for another binky! I couldn't believe it!
There was never any more crying or fussing over binkies. She even found 2 of them around the house and was quite willing to give them to me to give to the Binky Fairy.
I can't believe how easy this was! I truly believe this was a tender mercy from the Lord. I've been sick lately and was scared that it would be very tiring to deal with the drama of no binkies, but the Lord stepped in and helped Kately move forward!
What a tender mercy!
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