Uncommon Blessings

There are so many things that we take very much for granted. We don't mean to, we just do because we don't even realize that it is a blessing, it is just a case of not realizing the mundane is a blessing.

In this past week as Baby has been allowed 4 hours a day out of her harness I have learned to appreciate the blessings of how easy it is to nurse without a harness on your baby, how you can snuggle so close, and how their body just wraps around you as their legs tuck in on your side! I have realized the blessing of being able to put Baby in a fleece sleeper today to play in when it is cold and damp here with a winter storm blowing through. And I have realized the blessing of our health, because even though everything is not perfect we are generally okay, and that is rare to say.

Tonight as I was trying to get both girls to sleep I realized the overwhelming blessing my husband is in helping with bedtime when both girls are ready at the same time. He blesses me in a lot of ways, but I realize that I am not always as appreciative or as aware as I really could and need to be.

More and more I am realizing that the Lord's richest blessings seem to be in the things we take for granted because that is how they always have been when it is rare to be able to say that.

So tonight as I go to bed, I am thankful for a warm bed to sleep in with nice pillows and treasured blankets. I am thankful for a roof over our heads and food for breakfast. I am thankful for a thermostat that is programed to turn the furnace on as needed to keep us warm, a furnace that works faithfully. I am thankful that as I go to bed I will check on 2 girls who love me and who I love more that I realized possible, and I will think of my husband who is away on business and miss him as I snuggle onto his side of the bed, grateful that he arrived there safely, has a job, and loves his family just as much as we love him.