Blessings....

Do you ever have one of those days where you just want to crawl back into bed and start over? That was my morning this morning. I woke up to an aching back and hips already felt tired and could tell my fuse was short. I got through breakfast fine, put Lyla down for a morning nap and laid down myself. For some reason the house phone rang twice back to back and happened to wake Lyla up not even a half hour into her nap. My fuse became a little shorter...I was banking on getting a good nap in. I came down stairs and snuggled her for a few minutes as she was crabby (probably because she didn't sleep enough) and grinned the rest of my way through the morning. I was sitting on the couch watching her play and she pick up a stuffed animal looked at it funny and put it down and crawled away. That's when I noticed that my wonderful male dog, who can smell my hormones and likes to mark his territory as I get closer to a due date, had peed on her stuffed animal. I lost it. My fuse was gone. I kenneled him, and tried to keep occupied as I searched for the cleaner (it wasn't in the spot it usually is...go figure) and then tried to keep Lyla busy as I gave her little lamb a bath hoping to save it. So needless to say I wasn't the best lunch date today and was so looking forward for Lyla's second nap of the day hoping that it would be much longer and I would get a good nap in because now my stomach was starting to feel tender from the extra snuggles Lyla was requiring today. I get Lyla down for a nap and turn to the computer while she talks herself to sleep. About now you are probably wondering why I'm sharing this with you or even why I called this blessings...hang in there I'm getting there.

As many of you know I frequent a March board where moms that had babies in March of 09 can share ideas, thoughts, questions and struggles that the may be having with their little ones. I have found countless sources of information from these moms. One of the moms posted a website that completely changed my day. There is a little girl named Layla Grace that is fighting cancer right now and it doesn't sounds like she has much time left. I read her entry called Sleep, Valentine's and regrets and was instantly brought to tears. I have so much to be thankful for and this mom put it all in perspective. I spent a good remainder of the afternoon reading the rest of the blog and crying most of the time hurting for this little girl and so grateful that I have a healthy child. It made me realize that today wasn't that bad of a day and that I have tomorrow with Lyla to try again. Anyways, I can't really do the blog justice so I will just share the link with you.... http://laylagrace.org/?p=448 Please pray for her family as it looks like she won't be around much longer, and please take a minute to say a prayer of thanks for your family. We are all so blessed beyond measure, I am thankful for each and everyone of you and am blessed that you are in my life.