Today

Today I am feeling. Not that I don't feel every day, but today seems especially feelsome. You know how you can complain and whine and wish some things were different? Like the laundry was done, and there were no crumbs on the floor, or that your furnace wasn't broken, and your dog forgot how to jump over the fence around your yard. You know. The norm.

Well, I was just given a huge smack on the back of my head. All of these things, these inconveniences, these troubles of mine? They all pale in comparison to what is good in our lives.

We have clothes to wear, which we play in, which therefore creates laundry to wash, dry, fold and put away. And it doesn't take me all day to wash one load.

We have food to be able to make crumby messes on the floor, on the couch, and to rub all over our 2 year old bodies. What's more, we have a two year old.

We have a house and a wood stove that we can use to keep us warm until we can get the furnace fixed. We can snuggle close together at night and sip hot cocoa and play games around the wood stove. All of us. Together.

And we are blessed with a dopey dog and a nice yard for her to play in if she so chooses.

So all of these emotions are swirling inside of me and I have come to the conclusion that all that we have, all that we work for, all that we've been given, is nothing if we can't share it with one another.
And best of all, we have healthy, happy children. We have eachother. I honestly should not be complaining at all.