Daily Joys

In the midst of all the chaos and confusion and many times of frustration of my daily life, I need to focus on the small and wonderful things about being a mom. Like my boys who are constantly picking flowers and leaves (and weeds and rocks and sticks) and giving them to me. Usually I wonder what in the world to do with them, but these bushes have been blooming at the side of our house the they have loved keeping a fresh supply on the table for me. It's sweet that they are so proud to give them to me.

Other things that make me smile everyday. . . .

Noah who is so good at getting up in the morning and doing all of his chores without ever being asked. I LOVE getting up to an empty and clean dishwasher.

Ammon who, even though he throws big fits about his chores much of the time, loves to snuggle and give me hugs.

Kaden who is always drawing and creating wonderful things and giving them to me.

Micah who give me dozens of daily hugs, and is so innocent in his mischief, like when he closes my bedroom door so I won't see him eat the strawberries from the counter, or when his new word for today was "a mess". Who is such a people person and I love to watch him show off for people and jabber nonsense to them.

Travis--well, pretty much everything about him makes me smile....he is just wonderful.

We are hoping to run "The Wounded Warrior 10K" this coming Saturday. I guess that depends on Trav's ankle and my knee, and hoping that he won't have to go into work like they are saying he might....I want to see how much faster I can do it this time around, but I've been running kind of easy because my knee makes me nervous.