Does it get any Sweeter?

Yesterday I found myself overwhelmed by God's unconditional love! Not only does He show me daily that He loves me, but He also take the time to remind me! The family that He has blessed me with is my daily reminder! When I see my husband and children I feel such so incredibly blessed! The tears are starting again as I type this! :)

Family and Home are my two favorite words and I am so thankful for what each word means and brings to my life! The beginning of Family is Home and in my home Family is Everything! A sweet phone call yesterday reminded me how short this life on earth is and how important each moment with the ones that I love the most are! What a privilege to be a wife and mother! Even better yet, I get to be a stay-at-home Mommy!! :)

This phone call challenged me to value the little moments that I have with my sweet family. Those moments that I can't go back and re-live! My house will ALWAYS have dirty laundry, dirty dishes, dirty carpets, dust, and cobwebs, but my Home will not always know the sound of children(playing or fighting). My home will not always have little finger prints on the freshly cleaned windows and mirrors, but they will be in my heart. My home will not always have dirty foot prints on my clean floor, or bath water all over the bathroom floor, soggy Cheerios on the floor, a snugly child, icky green noses, Thomas railroad tracks to step on :(, toys all over the backyard, ... get the point? These small, mundane, ever day, little things can make or break me! I am learning to wake up in the morning and before I even get out of my bed I am taking the time to thank the Lord that I can hear my children hollering(I have to go potty! this is usually the case in my house :)) and I can hear my baby girl cry for me at all hours of the night. I have two feet to walk down my bedroom steps to take care of these precious children and I have two arms to hold my children tight! I have so much to be thankful for! Someday my children will be grown and I won't have a mess. Will I miss the mess? No, but I will miss the children! I am determined to live this day loving the little moments and laughing at the crazy ones! Hey, wanna join me? Don't think about tomorrow, just live FOR today! Remember, you only have one today! Make it Great! Only you can make today amazing!

A New Closeness

Wow!! What a fun few weeks! When I last posted my oldest, David, had a fever. The next day he said my ear hurts so to the doctor we went. Poor guy had a double ear infection and yucky cold. That next Wednesday my baby girl, Maegann Joy, woke up from her nap with a fever. She was cutting two teeth at the same time so I assumed that was the cause for the fever. We finally found that she had a very bad cold and flu. Six days of fever and medicine she is finally doing great. Now my two year old, Mark, is recovering from the same thing! Needless to say it's been a fun few weeks!
I have to admit that I enjoy when my kiddos are sick. They love to cuddle and they only want me! No one else!! That's the best!
I sure did learn a few things during these fun few weeks! I found myself constantly going to the Lord to ask him to heal my babies. When my babies started to feel better I didn't seem to go to Him as much as I did when the kids were sick. How sad of me! I got to thinking that Jesus made my kids sick for a reason. Was this reason because He missed me? Preacher said in a sermon not to long ago, "I would rather stay close to Jesus so He doesn't make me get close to him." Yep, He will find a way to draw us too Him! Looking at it from His perspective, all He wants is for us to only want to be with Him! Just like my babies only want me when they are sick. What a concept! I have learned so much and my relationship with Him has gotten so much closer.
Our "Team Daddy" is helping so much during the day. Knowing that the work they do during the day is for their Coach, Daddy, my boys actually get excited about the work they get to do. I love to see their faces light up when they hear the keys in the door knowing that their Coach is home and he is gonna be so proud of them!
What can I say? I LOVE my family!