It was brought to my attention that it had been a while since I updated my blog....and while I did not realize it had been two months....between school, kids, the house and church activities I have been too busy to even notice if anything going on has been "blog worthy". It seems I barely have time to breath most days let alone blog, but over the past week or so I have been dwelling on the concept of gratitude.....which is something that I speak of often I know....but I was glancing over my facebook page the other day and happened to re-read my "About Me" section. I wrote that years ago....probably three or so right after I quit my job....and I really had forgotten most of what it was I had wrote....so when I re-read the words I was amazed at how much of it really is so much a part of who I am. For those of you reading this right now that have no clue what it says here is what I wrote about myself three years ago....
"LIVING TO LOVE. Learning to be a full time mom without a lunch break. Soaking up every second of innocence in my children’s faces. Trying to live every second with gratitude and without taking anything for granted. Knowing that life is a gift that doesn’t last forever. Living each day as it comes. Balancing life tasks as best as I can. Trying to be the best wife in a society where divorce is the norm. Searching to find my purpose in this life while living. Wanting to touch as many lives as I can while I am here. Making a life I can be proud to leave. Believing whole heartedly in the power of prayer and love. Trusting God to lead the way."
It blows me away that no matter how much my life has changed over the last three years (and that is A LOT) so much of that still holds true today. Even though I am pretty used to life without a lunch break now....I still look at my kids on a daily basis and think "Why me?" "What in the world did I do to be lucky enough to be their mom?" Gratitude and love to me are the greatest powers in this life. Gratitude is something that I have to continually remind myself to practice. I have an abundance of things in this life to be thankful for.....God has put some seriously AMAZING people in my life and I am blessed beyond comprehension....I try to not let a SINGLE day go by with out reminding myself of that. I am not worthy of anything...but through the power of love and by the absolute GRACE of GOD I have a life to be INCREDIBLY grateful for and that to me is "blog worthy!"
"LIVING TO LOVE. Learning to be a full time mom without a lunch break. Soaking up every second of innocence in my children’s faces. Trying to live every second with gratitude and without taking anything for granted. Knowing that life is a gift that doesn’t last forever. Living each day as it comes. Balancing life tasks as best as I can. Trying to be the best wife in a society where divorce is the norm. Searching to find my purpose in this life while living. Wanting to touch as many lives as I can while I am here. Making a life I can be proud to leave. Believing whole heartedly in the power of prayer and love. Trusting God to lead the way."
It blows me away that no matter how much my life has changed over the last three years (and that is A LOT) so much of that still holds true today. Even though I am pretty used to life without a lunch break now....I still look at my kids on a daily basis and think "Why me?" "What in the world did I do to be lucky enough to be their mom?" Gratitude and love to me are the greatest powers in this life. Gratitude is something that I have to continually remind myself to practice. I have an abundance of things in this life to be thankful for.....God has put some seriously AMAZING people in my life and I am blessed beyond comprehension....I try to not let a SINGLE day go by with out reminding myself of that. I am not worthy of anything...but through the power of love and by the absolute GRACE of GOD I have a life to be INCREDIBLY grateful for and that to me is "blog worthy!"
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