RATINGS AND READINGS

A few months ago I invited Becky and her friend to come speak to a group of women as a part of my Church calling. Part of their discussion was about rating some of the moments in our life and slowing down enough to pay attention to the beautiful moments of every day. We all function and survive our day to day routine with most the happenings of the day rating at a 1. One is good, life is good blah blah blah. Every once and awhile we recognize a "2 moment." That's the equivalent of a nice little hug from one of your children or a moment when they might actually listen to what you say and follow instructions with a smile on their face. But the best moments in our life are a 3, the breathtaking instances when you wish you could just freeze the perfection of the situation.  It's easy to miss the 3's if we're too busy, too tired, too stressed, unfocused....
But man is my life filled with 3's. This past weekend Layla and I rang cow bells and cheered for her dad at his bike race. We jumped up and down as we finished strong in fourth and brought home a little extra bacon this weekend. Then Kday, Layla and I headed off to The Hill for a little R&R by the pool. There were many moments while we floated the lazy river that I wanted time to freeze and last forever. I would say instead of having a few moments rating a 3... I spent the entire day in a 3.




I encourage you to look for the 3's in your life. If you don't look for them, you'll certainly miss them. I'm sure I'll have a lot more of these heavenly moments in the near future.

To keep my busy during this much longer wait than I had anticipated for this baby to arrive and in preparation for each of the "phases" of my life - here's my current reading list:
Your Pregnancy and Childbirth
Babywise
Love and Logic for Early Childhood