It's the Little Things

Right now, right this very moment I am exhausted! My husband and I are foster parents as well as having four of our own children. Currently we are caring for 6 children including our own. Ages 8, 5, 3, 2, 1, 2 months.
I am sitting in one of my favorite rooms of our home. My girls' room. It's beautiful. Soft blue with light pink bedding everything is soothing and I have my own old, white rocking chair in this room. I have to sit here every day during the first 20 minutes or so of nap time so that my dear Brooklyn (3) will fall asleep. If she for one second thinks I am not watching her or have tabs on her she will take full advantage. At nap time that would mean, getting out of bed a thousand and one times, coloring on the walls or something along those lines.

I could be upset that I have to sit here with these two girls waisting my precious 1 hour of quiet but this is my time as well. I generally catch up on FB, read my daily devotion (currently Jesus Calling) or close my eyes.

Our days are so short. A good friend told me that her mother always says, "The days are long but the years are short."

In what seems like just a few hours we will start our day all over again with a lot of the same stuff we filled today with. But you know what? I would not have it any other way.

I have to, on a daily basis look for the little things that make my day sweet. The little things that I can find some sort of simplicity in, the little things that make my heart a little lighter. It's the little things.

Sitting in my white rocker is one of them. Singing to all my children as I put them to bed at night is another. Cuddling (whether he like to or not) next to Dave at the end of our long day while we watch TV is another. The short time I have each day in my Bible is so precious to me yet sometimes the thing I sacrifice first. That will have to be another topic on another day.

Yes, it is the little things that make the world go round. What are your little things? Search for them and be content. Smile and let your light shine.