Grateful for the good at the ungrateful moments...

In every life there are hard things.  We tell our kids we can do hard things.  Sometimes the lamest of things can seem hard.  I was cleaning out closets in prep for back to school and I was finding it exhausting.  I was working on Remy's closet and had found a bunch of clothes he had outgrown.  Give away?  Save for Noah?  Where do I store them?  And suddenly I had a feeling "be grateful he is growing" and I had in my very hand the evidence he was growing.  My heart was flooded with gratitude for this child God had sent me.

Now here I am tonight Remy has a wicked sore bum and I am wiping butt paste on my 10 year old and I am TIRED, somedays it doesn't bother me and others it does.  I've had poop and butt paste or residue of paste on my fingers almost everyday for ten years.  And it stinks and it's sometimes hard to get rid of the residue or the smell.   Trying to find the grateful????????
I hugged him, tucked him in bed and here I am at my computer:
Grateful for good soap from bed and bath
Grateful for a computer to vent on
Grateful for good butt paste that usually helps him feel better
Grateful for a washer and dryer to wash the dirty towels and linens and clothes
Grateful I get to go to bed and start over fresh tomorrow.

Sometimes the gratitude comes easily to our minds and other times we have to work for it.

Buddies

Meet Morgan.  or MoMo.  I adore her.   I'm pretty sure these two should get married.  She belongs to one of the other coaches.  Sport knows her from school.  She will start 1st grade this year, and Sport will be in 5th, but they have the same functional skills class.

One of these things...

One of these things is not like the other........  This kid is hilarious.  He jumps right in line with them.

Football, football football

5:30 to 7:45 every night we are at football.

Seriously the things they do when I'm not watching ?!?!

My future daughter-in-law!

Wipe Out!

These two wipe me out!!  Sunday afternoon naps are the best.  They are even better with a couple of cuddle buddies!  I don't think they can get any closer ? ..?..

20years High School Reunion

Katherine Wright Dougall and Me

Kari, Amy Kath, Me

Kari, Heidi, Amy, Becky, Me, Kath

Andrea, Kath, Me

"fun" in funeral

I have to say this was the funerals of funerals.  The Mootz would have highly approved. Things that were highlighted during the funeral and some of the extra things I remember about her are:

Be FUN - seriously who fakes dead just to get a kick out of their kids when they are 85?

Be Generous - she was generous with the arts, the neighbor next door and everyone in-between.

Be About the work - She wasn't busy ready the scriptures she was busy doing the scriptures.

Be Positive - "Chin up"

Be Unique 

Be your best you and don't be afraid to let that light shine.

And many many more.....