Getting my Christmas Cheer On!!!

It is 6:30pm both my kids are tucked in bed and it has been one of those days! You know the kind that you wish you could just skip and go straight to bed. I try to be thankful for every day and all the precious moments with my children but I had a hard time finding my thankfulness today...

Nothing tragic or bad happened it was just one of those crazy, emotional, kids are a little under the weather, too tired to handle themselves, parental nightmares that when 5:00 rolls around you have already practiced in your head the sob story you are going to tell your husband when he gets home from work in the hopes that he will tell you to go take a drive and relax while he puts the kids to bed etc. but instead, you get the phone call that he has gone Christmas shopping with the boys and will not be home until late. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ok count backwards from 10, cry and little, then put yourself together for just one a half more hours!

Now it is over and I am thankful for that and as of this moment I am going to change my attitude (as I am constantly telling my three year old to do) and get my Christmas cheer on! I am thinking comfy clothes, eggnog, Christmas music or maybe a little Bridgette Jones Diary and spiked cider!

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.  – Anonymous

 
One of my goals this month was to find the "moment" in every situation that I want to remember and am thankful for. Life is so short and kids grow so fast and when I have days like this I hate that I wished it away. For there will come a day when I am wishing for my kids to be babies again and will look back at these times with great pleasure. So... even though it was a rough day I am thankful for

-that moment that my one year old waddled up to me with a book in his hand and plopped down on my lap so I would read to him

-or when he gave me the sweetest kisses when he first woke up this morning.

-I am thankful for the moment my daughter hugged me and said she was so so sorry and that she was
going to change her attitude (even if it did take her all day to do it)

-or when she told me she loved me and told me that "I truly am the best"!

-I am also very thankful that they are both sound asleep and I have the whole evening to unwind!

And in the words of Anne Shirley "tomorrow is a new day, fresh, with no mistakes"

Here's to tomorrow and all the wonderful moments that we all find in our day to be thankful for!

-Shannon Leah