Wordless Wednesday - playing with play doh edition

Thankful Thursday

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wordless Wednesday - boys on a 4 wheeler edition

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for

.... family bike rides

.... being silly

.... and these 2 faces

Wordless Wednesday - Asher and I trampoline time

Thankful Thursday

Today I don't feel very thankful.  In fact, I feel rather discouraged in many areas of my life.  I have a few things that are weighing heavily on me, and several moments today were actually spent in tears because of it.

But it is days like today that I need to especially remember to be thankful; I know that much for sure.

I heard two very gut-wrenching stories this week about loss; one about a mother of a young baby and another about a newborn.  It makes me sick to even think that these things happen.  Babies shouldn't die.  Babies shouldn't grow up without their Mama's.  But both of these things happen.

Today I am thankful for life.  Thankful that my boys are alive and breathing and jumping and smiling and crying and sleeping and hugging and eating and playing and walking.

Today I am thankful for wet tears and wet diapers.

Today I am thankful for quiet time and time outs.

Today I am thankful for preschool and music class.

Today I am thankful for sticky hands to clean off after lunch.

Today I am thankful for little clothes to fold.

Today I am thankful for toys to clean up.

Today I am thankful for drooly kisses and runny noses.

Today I am thankful that my boys are just here.

Here at home, in my house, in my arms.

Wordless Wednesday - our first visit to my parents camping trailer