Grateful

We've had a few stresses these past few weeks: a pay error at work that means I'm taking home less money and and took time and energy to resolve; news that our sitter is moving and we have to search for someone new; a big car purchase (once Jake's aunt and uncle replace their Odyssey, we're buying their old one and these kinds of big money outlays always stress me out); Ben has a skin infection (waiting on results to see if its MRSA) that he's on heavy-duty antibiotics for; I just had my umbilical hernia repaired yesterday and am recovering for the next few weeks; Jake's working on a big case...

In the grand scheme of things, though, we're so fortunate. We have good productive work. We have health insurance that covers trips to doctors, medicine, and surgeries. We have the ability to purchase a new-to-us car. We've had a wonderful person we trust to take care of the kids while we work....

I can view events in my life in a negative or positive lens. I want to choose the optimistic view, a view that believes in hope and the goodness of life and the human spirit.

The purpose of this blog has generally been to inform far-away family and friends about our lives. I mostly just put up pictures and videos of the kids and talk about fun things we do. I'm thinking I might start interspersing these posts with gratitude musings. I want to keep track of the daily little and big blessings we experience.