blessed

Why is it so easy to forget just how much I should be grateful for? Why do I so easily feel sorry for myself some days? Why is it that some days I wish I could have the one thing that everyone else has. Whether it be a new car. A new computer. Those fashionable boats everyone is wearing. New furniture. Just one more room in our house (not very realistic, I know.) It might be a small thing or a big thing, or maybe a thing that I wish would happen and it never does.......whatever it may be.....it's not really that important in the grand scheme of things. Not compared to the things, no..... blessings, that I already have. My husband and two beautiful girls. Our lovely home (a little small, but just perfect for our family of four.) This is the way God planned it. We are meant to be a family of four. We are meant to have a nice warm cozy house, as the girls call it during our prayers each night.

Tonight on the evening news they were doing several features on the orphans of Haiti. After the devastation of the earthquake, so many children of all different ages are now without mothers and fathers. It breaks my heart.

Jason and I have always talked about adoption. That was going to be our path if our tries at invitro didn't work. Part of me still wonders if our little family of four would have room for another one. Could we be a blessing to someone who needs a family. Who knows. Maybe God will tell us one day that we are supposed to open our home to another child. It's something to pray about and ponder. Not that I don't already have my hands full with two little almost four year olds who are itching to start kindergarten.

I was reading another blog tonight and she had this picture posted on her site.

I wanted to share it, because if you are looking for a way to give to the people in Haiti, check out The Rusted Chain at www.etsy.com. I purchased a blessed necklace tonight. I think it is absolutely beautiful. And a great reminder of how blessed I am. The seller, Beki, is donating $10 from every "Blessed" necklace sold to an organization called Compassion International to help with disaster relief in Haiti. She has raised over $2000 already!

Maybe you can be a blessing to someone else, or maybe you are just like me and need a little reminder of how blessed your life already is and how you shouldn't let a moment pass without thanking God for the way your life has turned out- just perfect and blessed beyond measure.

my girls

I just thought I would post some newer pictures of my girls. In just a few months they will turn four years old. Which seems impossible. Wasn't I just gigantic pregnant?

The girls have their early childhood screening in a few weeks. Which means that kindergarten is just around the corner. I did the math, in 18 months they will be starting kindergarten at Cherryview Elementary, our neighborhood school.

It can't be!

It just makes me think how much more I need to cherish each and every moment with my little girls. Before they are not little girls anymore.

prayers for baby meschke

Our friends Andy and Anne need your prayers. Anne is pregnant with their third child and they just found out that their unborn baby has a heart defect. They are in Boston today undergoing tests and preparing for surgery tomorrow. Their story is on a Caring Bridge site. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.