I've been thinking a lot lately about a message I heard about a year ago in which the speaker talked about not turning our blessings into burdens. Aren't many of us so good at doing that: complaining about things that others would LOVE to have, that many would consider a blessing?! The Lord has been laying this on my heart recently, and it was really driven home to me over this past Mother's Day weekend. In honor of that theme, I wanted to make a list of the things for which I am so very thankful:
- the fact that my living room floor is almost always covered in trains and train tracks
- having to be careful about everything that I say because little ears are listening to (and repeating!) it all
- a 2-year old who wants to do everything himself even though it takes three times as long
- that I hear "Mommyyyyyy, what are you doing??!!" shouted many times a day when I am not within eyesight of said 2-year old
- playing peek-a-boo while I'm trying to use the bathroom :)
- stepping (and tripping) over little cars, trucks and bulldozers that are scattered all throughout the house
- stains on my furniture and carpet from sticky hands and accidental spills
- fingerprints all over the television, mirrors and glass-top tables
- crumbs on the floor that I just vacuumed
- varicose veins in my legs as a result of pregnancy - lovely
- getting up to pee multiple times a night
- maternity clothes that hang on me like a tent and "regular" clothes that won't button
- buying and changing diapers over and over and over and over and over again
- reading The Little Red Hen and Puss in Boots over and over and over and over and over again
- a pantry full of "toddler foods" such as goldfish, fruit snacks and animal crackers
- a home full of love and life!
I truly am thankful that the Lord has me right where I am this very day, among the messes and the tasks that I do again and again with what seems like little result or success at times. I don't ever want to take any of it or these precious moments for granted. I feel abundantly blessed and would not want it any other way!
4 comments:
Lovely post - so well said and so sweet!
Awesome Katie!! I love it! I too haven't gone to the bathroom by myself in over 5 years, but I know that the day that I do go to the bathroom without someone wanting to know where I am and then coming in, I may cry!
This is a great post, Katie! I OFTEN look around my too-messy house at carpets with stains that will never come out, kids' bedrooms whose doors I MUST leave shut because they are such eyesores, homework papers everywhere, DVDs I would never watch, cups and bowls left places I would never leave them, and think Thank you, Lord for allowing me the privilege of raising two kids!!! I already know how sad and lonely it will be when they are gone... and I can see gone from here. It all goes SO fast, and it's good to recognize how blessed we are as moms. Love you! Jenny
beautiful post katie!! good reminder to all of us:) the picture with pierce surrounded by the trains is too cute!
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