I have a cold

I have a cold!!!!! Got it one week ago today with a sore throat, not just a regular sore throat but the kind of sore throat that I really thought my throat was bleeding! Everytime I talked, swallowed or breathed my throat would kill me. Now 7 days later, I have a stuffed up head, mucus in my chest and I am miserable. When I cough, it hurts!!! You would think that I could stay at home and rest but no, my life is not condusive to such things. I did leave work at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, got home at 1:15 p.m. and went straight to bed! No more slack time for me though!!!!! Why do we as mothers and wives have so many duties in our lives that we can't take the time to get better? Why are our lives to hectic with work, meetings, children and other things to do that we can't just step back and rest? Something has to give!!!!! I don't know what it is but it is clear to me that this is NOT the way that we were meant to live. I have named my blog "Enjoying the Little Moments" because it is important that we "ENJOY" life. When I am old (older than I am now) and I look back at it all, it really won't matter if my house was clean, it won't matter if I spent every day in this stupid cubby that I work in, it won't matter if I went to church every Wednesday and Sunday. It will matter that I lived the type of life that God wanted me to, that I spent time with my family, spent time with myself, and that I cherished this wonderful "life" that the Lord gave me. Just something that I am thinking about... Your thoughts?

My children are growing up!!!

My Sarah will be 15 tomorrow. I can't believe my children are growing up so fast!!! It really seems like yesterday that they were little and they believed everything I said. I tell them something now and you can see the skepticism cross their minds. You can see that they are beginning to realize that I really am not that smart.

I look back on it all and I realize that I would have done so many things differently. I might have not insisted on moving to a house (we could have stayed at the town house) and I would have been a stay at home mother. I might have baked cookies with them and read to them more. I would have picked them up from school and discussed their day face to face instead of by cell phone every day. Oh, who am I kidding??? That would have driven me crazy! I would never have been happy staying at the town house with no money.

John and I have worked very hard for our lifestyle. It has taken sacrifice on our parts, some luck, and hard work!!! People often say that the reason that they have problems is because of their messed up childhoods! Well I say - Get over it! Parents do the very best that they can - Yes, we fail a lot but not because we want to fail, we fail because there is no book that tells us what to do - we do what we think is best at the time. Hopefully, our children will raise our grandchildren a little better than we raised them. Hopefully, our grandchildren will get it a little better and our great grandchildren will turn out even better.

Saying all of that, I know that I have the BEST parents in the entire world. Even as an adult, I turn to my parents for guidance. I can only hope that my children feel the same way and turn to John and I for guidance when they are adults.

The following is a part of my devotional today and it went directly to my heart:

"To make a decision to have a child, it's momentous. It is to decide to have your heart go walking around outside of your body for the rest of your life." That is how our Heavenly Father feels about His children!

We are so lucky!!!