a blessed Monday

Mondays are usually not my favorite days.  The weekends go by way too fast and to have one extra day "off" would be so lovely but here we go, back to work with the kiddos and usually a mountain of laundry from the weekend.  Both Ehren and I were a bit more tired after this weekend because we pretty much spent the whole Saturday cleaning the house, inside and out for Ehren's colleagues' party.  Not too many came but it was nice to have them over and for Ehren to show them he appreciates their work.  Then Sunday we had the Hanson family over for dinner and it is so fun to watch when the cousins get together now as they're getting older.  They get all excited and loud and just have fun with each other.  So by Sunday night, we were pretty pooped and Ehren was wishing he didn't have to go to work this morning.  Well, he didn't get his wish but somehow I got mine and what a blessing it was.  I knew my 2 nieces weren't going to come today but then I got a call this morning that Carson, my other one year old was not coming today either.  Yes!  I was so excited. :)  I get to spend the day with my 2 sweethearts and feel like a regular stay home mom for a day.  It has been the best morning ever.  I got some cleaning done, workout done, I took kids with me to run a few errands including big grocery shopping and I just loved it.  Sometimes I envy moms that stay home only with their kids because they get to do all their cooking/shopping/errands running with the kids during the day.  For me, most of that has to wait until the evening, after dinner and it is so hard to do that when I'd much rather stay home with my family and play games with them, be there for bed time and stuff.  But today, I got to do that and it totally made my day.  I just smiled this morning and thanked God because He knew so well how much I needed a bit of a break.  Now I'm ready for tomorrow.  It can be hard sometimes to see anything positive or good in our life but once in a while we get little blessings that may not seem like a blessing to anyone else but us.  And in those times we can see God smiling down at us, taking care of us.  Have a blessed week!