What makes a mother's heart happy? I dont know about you but today my heart was happy. It was just one of those days where everyone was feeling good inside. My husband has been gone going on three weeks. He is home on the weekends but they go by quickly and the children have been missing him. School started last week and there have been some changes and I feel like often someone is off and struggling a bit because there are a good amount of someones in this house! So today we got everyone off to school without any drama. That made my heart happy. The sun was shining. I headed off to Costco with the baby and lately taking him shopping has not been fun. He wants to walk (and not stay in the cart) and do his own thing and excerpt his twoness mostly in the grocery store. Today I found out that Costco does not open till ten...which was annoying, but since we got there at 9:30 we had time to have a little cuddle and chat and he was angelic in the store. We were able to stop by a friends house on the way home because he was happy in the car and he was so cute there. He bounced in so happy and confident and sweet. We had a visit and then headed to drop off our groceries and he was perfect in the car again!! Lately that has been an issue as well. He helped me unload the groceries chatting about how strong he was lugging his bag of almonds. Then we had to go pick up the two middle siblings and he did not whine in the hot van. We picked them up and headed home and when we got there instead of the begging and begging for food that drives me up the wall ( I feel like I feed them all day) they went and played a game WITH the baby and everyone was happy until we picked up my oldest!!! I just had time to do dishes, clean, drink water and I didn't have anyone whining or screaming or fighting. It was amazing. When we picked up the oldest she had a friend come over and they happily baked and the other children played again. I guess it was a day where I didn't have a lot of demands put on me and I was so happy to see them happy, calm, content and feeling safe. I went to ballet in the evening and came home to everyone asleep. I am loving that since September has come and we have done some major changes to our diet everyone seems to be able to fall asleep at a decent time and I have an evening again...for the first time in two years. So today my heart was happy and it was my mother's heart. I can't explain it well but I am so thankful for it.
I hope you are having days like that in your life. There are just days where we need to feel filled with joy and for me they are not often. I struggle with feeling down and sorry for myself often and so having a happy day was amazing just amazing. May you have amazing days as well!!!! xo
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