Somedays it feels like everything is annoying. I could spiritualize it a little more and say "so much is weighing heavy on my heart." But reality is I'm just really annoyed.
Some things are actually big issues like my dad's open heart surgery (from which he is recovering very nicely), a sweet lady dying of cancer, and a friend's baby born early, but a lot of little things annoy me, too. Like babies coloring on walls...again*...,children screeching and crying, rain, overcast, dark skies, delayed signatures, laundry, laundry, and more laundry, yada, yada, yada.
And while dwelling doesn't help matters no one will let me crawl into the bed and pull the covers over my head. So lets...
Accentuate the Positive...
Sweet Pea says "thank you" anytime you hand her things...though when my dad gave her a cookie she wouldn't say it until she had tasted the cookie. Oh, it's good...now I say "thank you."
Sunflower has a very cute fake cough in the hope she'll weasel a cough drop from one of her parents. She also informed us (after we said something about Huckleberry and chili) that "Huckleberry can't have children yet! You have to be like 10 or 11 for children."
SnapDragon is looking forward to starting piano lessons after the new year. And even though sometimes it is hard for him to use self-control when asked to do chores, today after seeing Sweet Pea's drawing on the door he got out the magic eraser and cleaned the door. He also cleaned the downstairs bathroom tonight.
Huckleberry made dinner and did a ton of chores with me this evening, so now I'll go to bed with an almost clean house.
I did get to my Bible reading plan today after a week of missing it.
Oak took the girls to Costco this evening so the rest of us could work in peace, but now they are back and Sweet Pea is blowing bubbles in her milk with a straw (which I'm sorry to say makes us all laugh because she finds it just oh so much fun!).
I am absolutely positive that I have the best family.
How can you look at their sweet, laughing faces and not find a reason to smile?
* The size of the drawing was quite impressive as earlier she had been brushing the walls with a hairbrush and I confess I did not quickly notice when she switched to using a pencil.
Some things are actually big issues like my dad's open heart surgery (from which he is recovering very nicely), a sweet lady dying of cancer, and a friend's baby born early, but a lot of little things annoy me, too. Like babies coloring on walls...again*...,children screeching and crying, rain, overcast, dark skies, delayed signatures, laundry, laundry, and more laundry, yada, yada, yada.
And while dwelling doesn't help matters no one will let me crawl into the bed and pull the covers over my head. So lets...
Accentuate the Positive...
Sweet Pea says "thank you" anytime you hand her things...though when my dad gave her a cookie she wouldn't say it until she had tasted the cookie. Oh, it's good...now I say "thank you."
Sunflower has a very cute fake cough in the hope she'll weasel a cough drop from one of her parents. She also informed us (after we said something about Huckleberry and chili) that "Huckleberry can't have children yet! You have to be like 10 or 11 for children."
SnapDragon is looking forward to starting piano lessons after the new year. And even though sometimes it is hard for him to use self-control when asked to do chores, today after seeing Sweet Pea's drawing on the door he got out the magic eraser and cleaned the door. He also cleaned the downstairs bathroom tonight.Huckleberry made dinner and did a ton of chores with me this evening, so now I'll go to bed with an almost clean house.
I did get to my Bible reading plan today after a week of missing it.
Oak took the girls to Costco this evening so the rest of us could work in peace, but now they are back and Sweet Pea is blowing bubbles in her milk with a straw (which I'm sorry to say makes us all laugh because she finds it just oh so much fun!).
I am absolutely positive that I have the best family.
* The size of the drawing was quite impressive as earlier she had been brushing the walls with a hairbrush and I confess I did not quickly notice when she switched to using a pencil.
2 comments:
Oh no.....writing on the wall. Eek. Hope it came off okay!!!! And what a SWEET boy Huckleberry is. I am so impressed he that he does bathrooms. Maybe you could send him my way for a season. And I LOOOOVE the picture of SnapDragon and Sunflower. PRICELESS. And, you don't crawl in bed and put the covers over your head one some days? I totally do....it makes everything better....for about 5 minutes.
"on" not "one."
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