"Mom, I changed my mind..."

Last night after putting the girls to bed, Cade begged to read another chapter in the Book of Mormon Reader in his bed. I told him he could for ten more minutes and then I'd come and tuck him in bed. I went down to face our office to re-attack the chaos it had gotten into again and quickly became consumed in a mind game. Battling between doing just enough or just right.

"I'll just sort these papers...then file them later." "No, I should sort AND file now. But the ones that don't have a file for I'll make a file later." "No, I should make a file for them now. But I'll just handwrite the label."  "No, I should print it out with my fancy label maker now, so I don't have to re-make the label later..."

And so it went.

The next thing I knew, it was 9:30, and I heard Cade running down the hall.  "Mom! You know something really cool? I read the whole Book of Mormon! I finished it!"  He was so proud I couldn't be mad at him for staying up so late. After all, I had completely forgotten to tell him his meager 10 minutes was up and tuck him in for the night.  I was quite proud of him, too.  I gave him a hug and sent him off to bed.

Or so I thought.

At 10:30 he came to me in the office and admitted to finishing his Treehouse Book.

Oh my. So this time I learned my lesson and tucked him physically in bed and told him good night.

This morning when we were discussing more about his read-a-thon last night he said, "Mom, in the scriptures it talks about being nice. It made me change my mind. I decided I want to invite Tyler to my birthday."

It was all I could do to not bust out laughing. Granted, it was a tender thing to say, and really sweet. But just thinking back to the previous days' events and how quickly his heart changed made me giggle. Yesterday his cousin Tyler was over and they got in some tiff over something monumental like Tyler was being too silly and you could only be "sort of" silly while wrestling...or some scenerio along those lines. Cade got mad and told him he didn't want to invite him to his party and of course this devastated Tyler.

Thank goodness for the Book of Mormon. It softened Cade's heart and changed his mind. We delivered the invites today and Tyler got one.