Day 4

He closed up the house for the night (which includes letting the dogs out & checking on/re-tucking in the boys)...something I do nightly. I got to sit on my duff for a few extra minutes. Nice...

Day 3

My husband stayed home with our sick boys so I could attend a friend's baby shower that I helped plan. 150 miles away. 💗💗💗
I'm missing my guys tonight...

Day 2

Nope, I didn't forget... I've been chewing on this one all day. Yesterday abounded with moments of selfless serving by my dearest. Today I really had to look past all the tasks *I* had to accomplish and all the craziness that accompanies settling into a new home and having two sick boys and a nursing baby and just breathe for a minute in order to see. I get overwhelmed easily lately, it seems, and frustration peaks when Sean just doesn't read my mind. HOW DARE HE?!
So tonight when he told me to go sit down with Ruby while he did the dishes, a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.
Thanks, husband...

31: Day 1

A thought occurred to me this morning as I was preparing my kids' brekkie and getting my life-blood, I mean, my coffee ready.  There was just a little bit of half & half left.  I saved it for Sean.  I told him to take it for his coffee for his drive for work.  He said no, that he was saving it for me.  We've had "wars" before - where we battle back and forth over who gets the last of something we're almost out of that we both really like.  You're thinking I should be more on top of my shopping, right??  Our boys are sick, so I'm not taking them out to the store, and my time has just gone elsewhere.  (Obviously not here until today - I haven't posted in forever!!)  ;)

Anyway, I digress.  Making my coffee and using the last of that half & half (because it would make him smile) made me think that I really haven't given my husband of almost 10 years enough credit lately.  I've accused him, not necessarily openly but definitely in my heart, of being selfish.  If you wanna play that game - we're ALL selfish, in different ways.

I decided I needed an attitude change, a heart change.  For the next 31 days I'm going to post something that Sean does that is completely and unabashedly selfLESS.

Just because someone doesn't do something YOUR WAY doesn't mean they're not trying to show you that they care.

My husband insists that I get the last of the half & half when he knows I prefer that to milk in my coffee.  Thank you, love...

Heartbroken…

I let someone else's words to me affect how I treated my children today. And in that moment, that failure, what that person said came true...I am a not-so-great mama.

First World Problems...

This morning I woke up (I'm alive...and in a warm bed) with my face *still* hurting.  This is THE worst sinus infection I've ever had.  I'm on day 5 of antibiotics (I have medicine) and I'm still super sick (with something that WILL go away).
I helped get the kids downstairs and got their brekkie ready then got in the shower.  I dispensed too much Breathe oil in the tub and then dropped something several times [(oh, the humanity!)while in my nice, hot shower], and thought "oh it's gonna be THAT kind of day"...
I came downstairs (on my own two feet) to find a cup of coffee waiting in the kitchen for me.  My gracious husband had the NERVE to put sugar in the cup when he KNOWS (or *should* know) that the coffee cream is plenty sweet (seriously, Jessica???).  So I HAD to make another cup, because you just CAN'T undo too much sweet & I freaked out because I didn't want to waste anything.  Sean offered to drink the too-sweet coffee.  The NERVE.  (Again...seriously, Jessica???)
I took my round of meds to help me get well (again - I HAVE meds to take), and cursed the fact that I've been walking around with a hot water bottle on my face for the last week (we have a hot water bottle.  Wait - we have hot water!)...
As I stood there adding some sweet cream to my new cup of coffee, it hit me like a BRICK - I have such a BAD ATTITUDE!  Instantly regretful, I was also filled with thanks that I have a bed, a warm home, a shower AND hot water at our dispense, clothes, a functional body, warm drinks and more food than we really need, a caring husband and two wonderful children, two dogs that love me - no questions asked, and a whole host of other things that I'm too blind to see.  I mixed the two cups of coffee back and forth so that neither one of us would be overwhelmed by sweet, and thanked the good Lord above that I live in such a place that I can care for myself and my family.  Maybe not always the way I want to, but we're provided for.

²⁵ “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

²⁸ “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹ and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the dayis its own trouble.

Matthew 6:25-34

"Ga Cacka"

Benny's new word is graham cracker!  He's currently (right now, actually) enjoying ripping off his clothes (taking cue from his big brother, who is also currently de-robing) and really likes chewing on his socks...  O.o  His favorite song is a song about dump trucks, and he can get his groove on like none other.

Michael's school is getting geared up for a Christmas program, sort of an impromptu one, so he's been learning some new songs at school - his favorite is the Little Drummer Boy, but he also really likes to sing "We Will Rock You" and has been quoting He-Man's power speech all week.

My folks were here a few days ago and they helped the boys decorate our Christmas tree - our first one in several years and the boys' first Christmas tree ever.

 Benny's first time hanging an ornament!

Checkin' out his work...

(Bampa's right there to catch this brave little boy)

The All Finished Congratulatory Head Rub

All done!

Bath time beckons...mostly because I have 2 naked little boys running around and I might as well take advantage of the opportunity!
Thanks Marmie for taking pics of the occasion!