Today started out as one of those days when I need to take a few minutes to count my blessings and give myself a few alotted pouting and whining minutes before I can move on into the day. The blessings I am most focused on include the things that are not in my life. I'm grateful that my husband isn't a soldier stationed away from home. I'm glad that he doesn't work crazy shiftwork hours. I feel blessed that his commute is 2 minutes from home to work, 5 if he stops for milk! We are so lucky. He has been working overtime this last week or so and worked most of the weekend. There has been a lot of single parenting in my life lately (another gratitude moment - I'm NOT actually a single mom). And to start a monday morning, another day of monotonous rain ( I mean rain that I am grateful for because it makes everything green - that's what I'm supposed to say right?) with the kids after no break for days on end, felt daunting. But we're up now and the day is moving along and I'm drinking my caramel latte with a generous amount of espresso. We are having a pajama day and will probably pick a few more of the indoor activities on our summer list while we wait for that sun to come out. We've gone through a lot of those indoor activities lately! We chose a couple more of those yesterday since it was still so rainy. Justin didn't go straight to work after church so we went to the science center and then to McDonald's Playplace for lunch.
This is what we were avoiding...
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