Simple Life=Simple Pleasures

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Something I have noticed more and more in the last year is that I am finding so much joy in such little things. It’s silly because these things should have brought me joy all along, but before I overlooked them, or took them for granted, or didn’t even do them! It has been a full year since the dam broke and the flood came, so to speak. It has been hard and frustrating and exhausting and scary. I look forward to the day when this is in our past and we can look back on “that hard time in our life.”  Oddly enough I can already see that we will look back on this time with lots of fond memories (I have been comparing it to pregnancy and childbirth. Somehow we forget the misery and the pain and end up oohhing and ahhhing over our wonderful memories. Unlike childbirth though, I plan to only do this once!). What I have realized recently is that this hard time has brought so much goodness. We had some friends over the other night and they were expressing their concern for us, which was so nice, but I had to stop them and explain how I feel like God is using this experience to draw us closer together and closer to Him. In the last year my Faith and my Family have become everything to me…I thought that was the case before, but I know better now. Gone is the need to consume and the busy schedules and the accumulation of stuff. That has all been replaced with thought out, conscious, intentional decisions…simple decisions, simple life, simple pleasures! Here are some of the simple pleasures I find myself enjoying lately…laid back afternoons in the family room together,  Safeway’s Parkers Root Beer for 83 cents, an adult visitor on a chaotic afternoon, making something out of nothing with crafty stuff I find around my house, watching Lexi at horseback riding lessons, chai tea in a hand-me-down mug from a dear friend, game night at the kitchen table, sorting Lego’s with Isaac (yep, he’s SO my boy), peace and quiet in my clean house, afternoon naps on the weekend, listening to my kids giggle and play with their toys in the toy room (such a novel concept), long hot showers, silly conversations with Eliza, and that’s just the beginning!

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