Today I spontaneously got down on the floor to play airplane with Lilly. Between you and me I think she is entirely to heavy to do this but she does not agree with me. She wasn't pestering me to do it or anything. In fact the main reason why I did was because I wanted a break from coding and my lower back was hurting. Monkey was watching cartoons and must have seen me out the corner of his eye. He then took my laying on the ground as an open invite to completely tackle me. So there I am, with a 27 pound toddler on my face and a 46 pound 5 year old who has taken the opportunity to tickle me since her brother has me pinned and I start thinking about God. And how he must think I am rock-star awesome to give me these 2 kids. Well technically he gave them to both Kris and I, but Kris was at work and we're talking about me now. Seriously, I must be the bomb dot com to him because THESE KIDS ROCK!
I am beyond blessed and reminded of that daily. Even though some mornings I would rather eat paint chips than make another bowl of oatmeal. I have decided to try (I say try because its gonna take alot of work on my part and I am NOT perfect) to be thankful for my blessings. I know, I know, we are all thankful for the blessings of jobs, new cars, i phones etc. But I'm going deeper. I'm talking about being thankful for dirty dishes. Yep, you read that right. Thankful that I had food to cook my babies and feed them for supper. Thankful that I have a dishwasher that works and I don't have to clean them by hand. I'm talking about being thankful for toilets to clean. Cuz I don't have to walk out in 3 feet of snow to an out-house to do my business. I'm talking about being thankful when I get my $130.00 Entergy bill. Because I have a roof over my head and we are warm. Very warm. And I have a lamp that I can read my kids a story by at night. I am thankful for laundry. Yes it does tend to irritate me when Lilly changes her clothes 93 times after school. But I have a washer and dryer that work for me and my hands are not crippled by arthritis and I am able to fold my fresh clean clothes. So I wanna know....what are YOU thankful for?
Okay...Love this blog! I was just thinking to myself last night, as I was also doing laundry and a sink FULL of dishes (which I wash by hand), how thankful I was to even have a sink of dirty dishes. It becomes so easy to focus on the stresses and complications of life, but there are way more positives to be thankful for. I agree...God has blessed you with two amazing kids, as He has blessed me with my precious princess. The world would be a better place if more of us started digging deeper and being truly thankful for the blessings in our life. Thanks for this post...you are awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much. its funny how the next day after I posted this I had such a crummy day. And at about 4 pm i was like this is ridiculous. Changed my attitude and had an amazing evening.
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