This day definitely had its trials (the three-year-old) so it’ll do me some good to take some time to look back and see the joys I’m thankful for of today and the week:

• Good friends that I can share my faith with, prayer, petitions, and important discussion about motherhood and our Catholic Faith.

• Flashlight hide n seek in the dark house before bedtime.

• Reading time with my daughter, gives me a chance to be with her, look at her and see how much she’s grown.

• Energizing (and muscle-pumping) bike rides alone and with the family. (and a couple power naps, too!)

• The dinner company of good friends who were an integral part of our marriage prep.

• Daily Mass (even with the three-year-old’s exhausting antics). 

• Laughing together with my husband and kids about silly things that mean absolutely nothing.

• Library story-time and reading together with the three-year-old and baby.

• The feeling of accomplishment – finished ironing some clothes to consign and worked on a simple craft project I’ve been working on for way too long now but it’s almost done!

• My mom and sister who are available and willing to help me when I need it – it’s the small things like staying with the kids in the car so I can run into the store quickly by myself and look at paint samples that really count. 

• Getting up early enough to do 5 – 10 minutes of muscle strengthening floor exercises before school. 

• My husband and our family we have together, I’m thankful for my husband’s job and that I can be ‘at home’ with the kids while they are young – I complain a lot about the housework and the whining and all that but I know I really have it made. 

What are the joys you are thankful for?

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