In my time of respite, I've had lots of time to review my blog, organize printed and digital pictures, scrapbook (back from Christmas of 2007, oh my!)!!! Nevertheless, I've had a bit of time to look over my life in a visual format! I've looked, I've read, and I've realized I've got something to be grateful for...No, I've got a lot to be grateful for!
Our family has went through a few losses this summer. My dad's best friend past away unexpectedly, my great aunt passed after a long battle with cancer, and just last week one of my very best friends' mom passed from a long battle pancreatic cancer. When I look at my immediate and extended family, I have so much to be thankful for and to be grateful for! Not only the BIG things like our general health (I say that loosely with all of my idiotic and numerous issues), our general financial stability (again, stating it loosely!!), our happiness as a FAMILY and with MYSELF! But for the little things...
So, if I can continue to find the time when I head back into the swing of life as a full-time everything, and not being a bed-resting, non-cleaning, pill-popping chicka, I want to post little things that I am grateful for.
Like...
Today, Logan came bounding up the stairs after everyone let me sleep in (a regular occurrence on the weekend) and gently tip-toed up to the side my bed and said, "Momma, you're waking up now." Period. *Notice that wasn't a question, rather it was a declarative statement.* So, I lumbered out of bed and loafed downstairs to find two adorned princesses watching their beloved "Tom and Jerry". My Prince was cleaning the kitchen and washing dishes! I poured myself a mug of steaming hot java and my princesses smothered me! AAAHHH!!! We all then decided it's a beautiful day to go outside to enjoy the morning. So we slipped on our shoes and donned our flip-flops and the girls went to dust the world with the sand from their sand box and swirl the fresh morning dew from the slide with their four year old ambition, all while Josh and I sat together sipping coffee on the covered porch, petting Riley! I AM GRATEFUL FOR THIS MORNING! It was a simple morning but something I remember doing as a young girl...I'm grateful to my parents for giving me this memory!
Overall, I just need to look at the small things...that's life, right? I don't want to miss life! It's too short to miss it! It's not always the BIG moments and the LONG trips and the EXPENSIVE things we do is it? It's the little things that add up and I need to capture those!!!!
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