So Thankful

This past week was a blast! We drove the usual 9.5 hours to CT to spend a few days with my wonderful family! The older I get, the more grateful I am for my family. I guess when you're a kid, you're more likely to take things for granted than you are when you have a family of your own. It was the most amazing thing to watch my parents & two siblings spend time with Lilly, and I know she had the time of her life seeing them again! Lilly loves my family; I am blessed to have been able to spend months with them while Rich was deployed each year for the past 3 years, too. Right now God is teaching me to be content living farther away because one of my true desires is to live closer to my family. I'd hate for Lilly and baby#2 {and any more to come} to have to see their grandparents only a couple times a year! Same thing goes for Rich's family too. It's hard to live hours away from the ones you love, but I know because of that, it only makes us that much more thankful to have them in our lives.

Moving onto another thought. One of my prayers has been that God gives me more wisdom, and I really feel like He has been, because lately I've been struck with so many truths that I've never really appreciated before. One of them is this: Life is so fragile & can't be taken for granted. The people in your life, the home you have, the food on the table, your friends, everything. So many bad things happen in this world, and like the Bible says, life is a vapor & can be taken from you at any moment. Just accepting & living that truth makes me honestly feel guilty for how self-centered I can be. When God gives you the gift of another day & you ruin it by holding a grudge over something your spouse has done or ruin it by being consumed with selfish thoughts like how I hate that my skirts don't fit that good anymore because I'm pregnant (yep, guilty!! but surprisingly the number on the scale is the same exact thing as before I was prego... how'd that happen?!), each day becomes wasted and each moment that you could have been thankful, can't be taken back. There is so much more positive in this life than negative if you really stop to think about it! Anyway, time to end this post & go stir the sauce simmering on my stove. =) Have a good night!!