She loves me.

Every day around noon is nap time around this house. I get to put the girls to bed and have 1:30 mins to 2:00 hours to myself. I so love nap time! Well for the past 3 or so days I have been cheated out of it. Naomi somehow won't nap. I'll spend up to 1 hour walking in and out of that room trying to get her to stop playing or calling for me, or emptying the drawers, etc, etc. until she finally falls asleep or Jocie wakes up, then Naomi is off the hook. Today after an hour of it I finally gave up. I just sat on my little couch folding laundry trying to ignore my little monster. Seeing that mom would not give her any attention she walked out of the bedroom into the living room where I was sitting and stood next to me. I wanted to blow up and start screaming to go back in that room, but didn't. I decided that talking would be a better idea. "Naomi, you need to go back in the room and take a nap or you can stay out here but there won't be any TV for you today" and she said,

"OK. What are you doing?"
"I'm folding laundry"
"Can I help"
"Yes"
and she did.

From that I realized that the reason to not want to nap is because she wants to spend time with me. She started Preschool this year and obviously that leaves us with less time to spend together. I felt like a bad mom for not seeing it before, but very happy to know that she loves me that much. I'm so blessed.