Surviving the Terrible Twos x 2

First of all I want to say that I have been so blessed, far more than I deserve; and I know that my girls will grow up to be extraordinary law abiding young women. HOWEVER, right now sometimes I think it is debateable...LOL! Just kidding. Everyone told us that things would get so much easier by 2 1/2, to those people I want to say--LIAR, LIAR pants on fire!!!!! I have decided that parenting NEVER gets easier, it is a constant state of growing and changing. Once you get them figured out, they change and you have to start all over. Right now we are dealing with 2 VERY opinionated little girls. Abigail esp. My goodness. She is so much like me it is scary. I try to blame it on Ran, but the older she gets the more obvious it is. She is SOOOO independent and strong willed. She knows what she wants and will not let anything stand in her way. Just yesterday, we had a battle of wills before church--which is typical for a Sunday morning. The devil tries so hard to keep us at home. She kept throwing herself down on the floor refusing to obey, and I kept disciplining. By the time we got to church, we were both exhausted and I felt like the worst mother in the universe.
The message was "You can start over again". Thank you Lord! I guess that was a little devine intervention. Don't you just love it when that happens. Thank you Lord that your mercy is new every morning...may mine be the same.