Reframing...
My valiant attempt at reframing the exhausting...the seemingly endless sickness...and winter...and my barely-able-to- hold-it-all-together life the past 10 weeks...
Thankful that while my kids might have been sick on and off and with various sicknesses for the past 10 weeks, they are not CHRONICALLY ill. That when sickness strikes, even when it is over and over again...I can look with hope to the few days or a week later when life can resume to normalcy. Not everyone has this luxury...and that has been driven home in new ways even this week.
Thankful for normalcy.
Thankful that even though my house often seems strewn with toys and random items, my boys have the ability to imagine anything and everything...turning sheets into waterparks and q-tips into missiles.
Thankful that when winter decided to make one more big blast, landing us with a fresh 9 inches of snow, my family of four could go outside to build our first official snowman of the year (the snow had been too dry until this latest wet snowfall).
Thankful that while I have cared for sick children so much lately, I know HOW to care for them. Thankful that my mama taught me that cool wash clothes bring fevers down and help to calm restless, feverish bodies. Thankful for the sweet hours I spent cuddled with my kids. Thankful for medicine and doctors. And thankful for smiles and color back in the cheeks of my kids, at least for today.
Thankful for normal nights...dinner at the dinner table, board games, baths and stories.
Thankful that spring will come...eventually and that it is almost March instead of almost November.
Thankful for a husband who is willing and able to stay home with sick kids when I cannot do so (even if it is 4 times in 8 weeks). Thankful that he supports me and loves me through his actions and reactions. Thankful that we are a team and I am not in this alone.
Thankful for the sound of laughter ringing throughout my house. Thankful that my boys have a built in best friend...and playmate...brovers.
Thankful for three jobs that I love. For the people who have trusted me and taught me and grown me and blessed me.
Thankful that even though Noah has now caught the latest illness from his brother...I have some idea of the course and that it will be over before our trip on Wednesday (PLEASE LORD!)
Thankful that I don't have to work today, and can spend the day cuddled up on the couch with my youngest little man who has beautiful glassy eyes and a hot little head, that makes his ever-reddening hair that much more red.
Thankful for my life...the ordinary and the normal. Thankful for life and breath and energy. Thankful for the NOW. And Thankful that in the dark hours of the un-ordinary (the scary and the exhausting and the uncertain) I can still see the Light.
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