A Fun Day for Kiddos

A Cold but fun day for the kids.  Also, Ayden's surprise birthday present!

My Team

My world and my team for life.......two little munchkins that I love to the moon!

A Little Birthday Fun

Ayden and Gang

Ayden, Carrington, Hugh, and Danny had a great time for Ayden's 11th birthday.  It's too bad I can't tell you what all they talked about because apparently nothing leaves the walls of the house.  Well, except these pictures of course!

A Little Snow

There sure hasn't been much this year, but the kids enjoyed what little they have had.  Everyone likes to catch snowflakes on their tongues, right?!

A Thousand Things To Do.....

Right now I have a thousand things to do.  I’m doing one of them.

 

Right now I have a plan.  It is to do this one thing out of a thousand things.  When I am finished with this one thing, I will do another.  And another, and another.  I will continue working at this list of a thousand things.  It will look like I am getting things done.  I will be, but the list will not end.  For each thing I finish, another one will go on the list.

 

My husband has five things for me to do.  I haven’t told him my plan, because it has no end.  Plans usually have ends.

 

He will want me to do these five things, and I will do them.  My list of a thousand things will wait.

 

Each of my children have seven things for me to do.  I haven’t told them my plan either.

 

They will want me to do those fourteen things, and I will do them.  My list of a thousand things will wait again.

 

When I complete these nineteen things for my family, I will pick up where I left off and do one of the thousand things that I have planned to do on my list that has no end.

 

And things will pile up, and I will fall behind.

 

But I am only one person, and I can only get one person’s worth of things done.  Right now there are a thousand things that are on my list.  Twenty of them are crossed off.

 

Tomorrow, I plan to pick up my list and start again.  Twenty things will be added to the list, and tomorrow, like every day, I will have a thousand things to do.

I've Seen Things......

Though my life may seem small, short, and ordinary, I’ve seen things.

 

Irrational things.  Miraculous things.  Extraordinary things. 

 

Things that I didn’t want to see.  Things that I wish I hadn’t seen.

 

Things that I’m glad I saw.  Things that changed me.

 

I’ve seen a light in the sky that was not explainable.  A heavenly light switch flipped on, then off.

 

I’ve seen black smoke fill a house.

 

I’ve seen a face soften with one word, one tear, one small action.

  

I’ve seen wounds heal over time, physical and emotional.

 

I’ve seen a crime happen. 

 

I’ve seen a man gasp for breath on his next-to-last day on earth.

 

I’ve seen joy.  The face of my daughter on her birthday.  The smile of my son as I give him the go ahead to play with his friends.

  

I’ve seen injury.

 

I’ve seen violence. 

 

I’ve seen love.

 

I’ve seen fear.

 

 

 

 

I’ve seen all of these things and more.  They are not destinations.  They are not goals.  They are things that happened, things that I just happened to catch while living this life.

 

You’ve probably seen them, too.