Gratitude

Today was a much better day.  Melayna is feeling a lot better and she was in a fantastic mood all day. She peed all day in the pot without an accident!  Lucas and Melayna slept in until I woke them up so they were both happy today.  Lucas got to play soccer with a little boy and did not get in a fight although the little boy hit Lucas and tried to provoke him, but Lucas walked away and didn't say a thing.  I was so proud of him.  We worked in the baby room today and there was a new little girl who is about 8 months old and she was so cuddly and cried whenever I was not near her.  My kids really liked her too and wanted to help her all day.  It was a complete turn around from yesterday.  It made me think again about how lucky I am.  I only had one bad day (and it was not that bad), and then things turned around.  Today I also received an email from my sister with a video about gratitude that was great.  It made me remember to be thankful for all days even yesterday.  I loved the whole thing, but I had two favorite points.  The first point was that today is "given" to us like a gift so the only appropriate response is greatfulness.  The other point was we should let everyone we meet be blessed by us whether it be by our smile, our eyes, our touch or just our presence.  If we all remembered these things, the world would be such a wonderful place.  The video also talks about ways to see the gift in a day by just looking at the sky or another person's face.  For example, my mother-in-law said just the other day that is was freezing cold and there was snow and ice on the ground and she said it was a beautiful day because the sun made everything so bright and shiny and she even wanted to video tape it to remember its beauty.  Not everyone would stop to see the beauty is such an otherwise bitter type of day.  Also I often see people post pictures of the sunset or the moon or their child's smile on Facebook and I just know they are seeing the blessing in the day.  It is so great to see and I hope to see more people, including myself sharing those blessings and gifts and to hopefully be those blessings and gifts in other people's lives.  That is what I am striving to do, "be a blessing".