A Mother's Success

There was a time in my life where I had a totally different view of what success is. My view of success now is not even close to what I once thought. I thought of this today as I sat on the floor playing a game with my son. In my mind I thought with a sigh "this has been a successful afternoon". I thought this because I had my daughter down for a nap, upstairs in her bed where she belongs (not my lap where she prefers), I had gotten both my son and I our lunch, and now we were sitting enjoying an afternoon of leisurely play. Again tonight the thought went through my head as both of my children were down for the night, both asleep by 10:00. As crazy as it would sound, this was great success to me. Now mind you, this is just a simple explanation of my successes. But my point is that I never thought my view of success would be of such simple things. What I have realized is that this is the success of a mother. I am actually proud of these simple, little successes because I believe in the long term these little things will prove to be great. I would hope that as I set certain expectations for both myself and my children that as they grow those things will pay off. I see it now. I never meant for this to be this kind of post, but it has been one of those eye opening days for me. I believe that simple things, simple lessons can be huge when we are ready to see them. I could hear the same story over and over. Then, one day my eyes are opened to something different in that same story that I hadn't seen before. I try each day to be open to these teachings that God would have for me. I guess today's lesson was success. OK, I've rambled way to much.

On to other things. We are going to start our van hunt this weekend. We are in much need of a bigger car/van and so the hunt is on. We have a good ideal of what we want but we just need to find it. I am praying that the search does not take too long. We will have to wait and see.

We are all doing much better this week after the week of sickness last week. Camden is finally eating normal, as am I. It took several days of feeling tired before we were back on our feet. I'm just glad to have that all behind us.

Well, I need to feed the little one and head to bed. Goodnight everyone.