The thing that happened was lawn mowing. Yes, lawn mowing. I enjoy mowing the lawn. It seems to give me peace. I don't listen to music. I don't have the kids around. It's just me and my thoughts. So, as I was mowing, I thought about how lucky I was that I have a husband who doesn't come home and instantly go and work in the yard, or on a car, or some other project, or just sit and do nothing. Husband came home, walked in the door as I walked out and told him what the kids should have for dinner. And you know what? He didn't complain at all. He loves spending time with his kids. Husband doesn't mind cooking the kids dinner, getting them in the bathtub and ready for bed while I have some me time. Heck, he wouldn't mind if I decided to take a weekend trip someplace and leave the kids with him. I am so fortunate for that. I know way too many wives whose husbands can't, or won't, do what mine does. I find it amazing when I come across people and they say that their husbands can't get their kids to bed. The only time I put mine to bed is when Husband is traveling. I also find it amazing when wives say their husbands can't watch their kids because they're too much work. Too much work? Isn't raising kids BOTH parents' responsibility? Anyway...I'm thinking of how fortunate I am that my husband loves to be with his kids. Then I was thinking about how fortunate I am that my kids love being active. We've never been that family that runs errands all weekend. Yes, we need to get those done, too, but we divide and conquer so our kids can have time to enjoy life instead of sitting in a car going from store to store. That led me to the thought of how fortunate I am to live where I live and have such awesome people in my life. Tuesday, a friend told me to just bring Sunshine over for a bit so I could do some alone shopping while Monster was at school. It is wonderful to have friends like that.
There are days I forget. I forget how wonderful my life is and how fortunate I am. Yesterday was starting to be one of those days. It was hard. Sunshine has taken to not sleeping through the night again. It took until she was 22 months for her to get to sleeping through the night and now, at 29 months, she's back to no sleep. She's not napping either. This makes for one sleep deprived Mommy and one not so sunny, Sunshine. So with that, I wasn't feeling very thankful for anything. Then, my bathroom sink clogged. It was so bad that three rounds of Liquid Plumber didn't even work. I got very little accomplished the majority of the day. It's funny though how things happen to make you stop and look at how great life really is.
The thing that happened was lawn mowing. Yes, lawn mowing. I enjoy mowing the lawn. It seems to give me peace. I don't listen to music. I don't have the kids around. It's just me and my thoughts. So, as I was mowing, I thought about how lucky I was that I have a husband who doesn't come home and instantly go and work in the yard, or on a car, or some other project, or just sit and do nothing. Husband came home, walked in the door as I walked out and told him what the kids should have for dinner. And you know what? He didn't complain at all. He loves spending time with his kids. Husband doesn't mind cooking the kids dinner, getting them in the bathtub and ready for bed while I have some me time. Heck, he wouldn't mind if I decided to take a weekend trip someplace and leave the kids with him. I am so fortunate for that. I know way too many wives whose husbands can't, or won't, do what mine does. I find it amazing when I come across people and they say that their husbands can't get their kids to bed. The only time I put mine to bed is when Husband is traveling. I also find it amazing when wives say their husbands can't watch their kids because they're too much work. Too much work? Isn't raising kids BOTH parents' responsibility? Anyway...I'm thinking of how fortunate I am that my husband loves to be with his kids. Then I was thinking about how fortunate I am that my kids love being active. We've never been that family that runs errands all weekend. Yes, we need to get those done, too, but we divide and conquer so our kids can have time to enjoy life instead of sitting in a car going from store to store. That led me to the thought of how fortunate I am to live where I live and have such awesome people in my life. Tuesday, a friend told me to just bring Sunshine over for a bit so I could do some alone shopping while Monster was at school. It is wonderful to have friends like that. Today was another really hard day. So I stopped, looked around and took a breath. I have so much in my life to be thankful for. My husband and kids are the best. I couldn't have better friends. We are all relatively healthy. We live comfortably. We've got great neighbors (the ones behind us don't count). I love my job, even on the really tough days. Life is good and I'm grateful.
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