My life is perfect.

       I wake up in the mornings to a shrieking little one with the calls of her people, translated it means “Mommy!!! Feed me women! And while you’re at it I am wet as well.” Not long after that I hear running around up stairs and trying to remember if I did in fact move the baby gate to block my door and to make sure the bathroom door is closed and still has the safety lock on. After a few minutes of little feet stomping around and more than one call up stairs, I get greeted not with a smile or a hug but with “Milk? Waffle? Yogurt?” It’s not until after the requested breakfast is in the “works” that I get my sweet good morning and hug. Throughout the day (sometimes for weeks or months), I am alone with my two little ones. Some days I need to take more than one shower because I have been pooped, peed, spit up, or drooled on, sometimes multiple fluids at one time. I cook, clean, drive, and entertain my family all the time, I am our event planner, packer, and get ready to go out person. (I can’t help it, The hubs has stopped trying to help unless I ask. He was told not to touch anything to many times) I take care of everything in our house and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

      What!?! That doesn’t sound glamorous? It probably doesn’t. This year I have decided that I will ONLY look at positive things about life and the “not so nice things” I can’t change I am looking past. I have so many things to be thankful for. I have a beautiful family that is just the way I pictured it, (a husband that takes care of me, a sweet son who is the eldest and an amazing daughter who is around two years younger). I have a vehicle that is safe and dependable, a roof over my head, and as long as I am able to make it to the grocery store, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, but most importantly, my sweet family is healthy.

      I am choosing to look past all the things that I can’t change; the middle of the night wake ups because sweet baby girl is hungry (yet again), or the CRAZY early wake ups, even that The Hubs doesn’t have a 9-5 job and isn't home every night. I am choosing to look at the good in my life. It’s only a few months into the year and even though there have been crazy moments (that I wish I could have curled up in a ball and hid under a blanket) I have been happier a lot happier and I believe a better person. The bad moments aren’t ones that I will remember in 5 years, I will ALWAYS remember the sweet hugs from the kiddos, the encouraging words from a friend (maybe not the exact words but how they made me feel), or the random moments where everything thing falls into place and for just a moment everything is perfect.