Daily Thought #3 -Small Miracles

Well, it hasn't been totally successful but this is my 3rd post this week. I would like to express my gratitude for small miracles this morning. Let me elaborate.

Last night we left our Thanksgiving party about 9:30 pm. We had a wonderful day and really enjoyed our time at my parent's house just hanging. Maybe I will blog that later. Anyway, of all the stupid things, we were totally out of formula. What?! Yes. I dropped off the kids and went looking for an open grocery store. I drove from Lehi to Lindon. The only place open...Walmart. I don't know if you knew, but their Black Friday deals started at 10pm last night. I had no choice but to try to buy formula at Walmart. By the time I arrived there were already 10,000 people in line to buy there Black Friday treasures. All I needed (as desperately as I needed it) was a can of formula. I pressed my way through the crowds to the back of the store, grabbed my precious treasure and headed to the front of the store. On my way up to the front I decided I would just get $20 from the atm and buy my way to the front of the line by asking someone to pay for my formula and keep the change. I could hardly get passed the people crowding the checkout stands. I found a break in the crowd and headed for the atm. When what to my wondering eyes appeared...a check stand with only 4 people in line. I literally walked right into it. Seriously, I was so grateful.
It was funny. When I got home last night with the formula for Sarah, I told Nate about my luck. He told me he had prayed for me. :) We had been talking on the phone while I was driving around looking for somewhere so he know I had been forced to go to Walmart. Prayer changes things. I know, it was a small thing. I could of waited in line for an hour and a half. It wasn't that important. Maybe it was coincidence. I choose to see it as a blessing from a sweet Heavenly Father. :)

Next little miracle. We threw away our pathetic, cheap, broken artificial tree last year. Well, this year, we were faced with buying a new tree. Do you know how much a decent artificial tree costs... Wowzers. Anyway, we saw that Home Depot was going to have a tree door buster. $50 for a 7 1/2 ft. pre-lighted Christmas tree. They opened at 5 am. Nathan, my hero, got up and made it to the store by about 5:10am. He walked in and said he saw lots of people in line with the tree. He knew it was pretty hopeless. As he was walking around looking for the display a Home Depot employee asked him if he needed help. Nate showed him the tree in the ad and the guy said they were all gone...but he offered Nate the display tree. :) He gave Nate a note and told him to go pay while he got the display tree down and brought it to him. :) Yea! Nate just bumped into the right employee. We have a lovely new tree sitting in our living room to decorate with our kids tonight.

It was Thanksgiving yesterday. I can't really put adequate words to all that I have to be thankful for. This year we were able to buy our first house. That has been such a blessing and wonderful thing for our family. Our kids are very happy here. Nate and I are very happy here. We are close to family, which is so fun. We have some other blessing waiting in the wings that we are excited about as well. I sometimes wonder why God keeps providing for me when I am such a slacker. He is so patient and kind to our family. I love my Heavenly Father. I don't deserve his patience but I am immeasurably thankful for it. I don't deserve the small miracles but they come frequently.

Daily Thought #2

Random Daily thought #2 is only being written because Sarah woke back up about 30 minutes ago and is now happily playing on the floor with my shoe. She can crawl now. Did I mention that before? Cutest thing...that is going to really add to the work I have to do. We need gates for the stairs and possibly to keep her out of the kitchen. Who knows what she might find on the floor in there.

I am tired, but thankfully, tomorrow is a low key day at work. No schedule. Just paperwork. So I guess if I am up all night I will survive. I just finished reading Michael Vey. Good story. Very easy read, which is what I always like. Let's face it, that's the only thing I like these days. :) The majority of my meager brain power is spent on other things.

Next week Ben will finally get his first scouting patches. The Bobcat and the Wolf. He is a Bear now. This ward has been awesome for scouts. Ben is also in Karate...he enjoys it. I am just thankful to see him like something besides video games. :)

Yawning...and the baby has now found a piece of paper to entertain her. Energy level seems to be high. Go to sleep my little one. Go to sleep my little baby. That is a song, right?

Daily Thought #1

In an effort to try to warm up to my blog again I am going to try to enter random daily thoughts until the end of November. I will see how it goes.
First random thought - Isn't she sweet. I still can't get over how much I enjoy her. I love all my kids, but Sarah has been so easy to really enjoy. I don't have so many little ones hanging on my leg. I can enjoy focusing on her and catering to her while the others handle most things for themselves. It is great. She is truly adored by all at our house. A very popular little lady.

Then there are the rowdy children. I sat in church this morning with my rowdy little bunch, thinking, Ugg. Why do you have to be so noisy. We were at the front of the chapel. Ben, Rachel, and Emily were playing hang man together. They would have continued to have a great time had it not been for the mean mother who separated them. They don't know how to whisper or play so people can't hear them. They think that as long as they are sitting they are being reverent. At the same time, they are the excitement and fun of our family. Everyday at our house is crazy and I really do love it. I love the things we do as a family. I love my kids bursting personalities that have no boundaries. My life would be utterly incomplete without them.