Sunbeams and Storm Clouds

After absent-mindedly blurtting out "I don't know how you do it" today, I'm admitting that it's a lot easier to say than I was willing to admit in my last post. It's still on my list of "pet peeves," but I'll work on letting it bother me less.

While I still want to use this blog as a place to chronicle our family life, I'm also working on making it a place where I can write about other topics as well. There are always so many things in my head that I need to express somewhere and I have found it very therapeutic to write about those things in a place where many of my other "mommy" friends can read them and know that they're not alone. I have found through Facebook and my blog that we have so many things in common that we never talk about with anyone because we don't think they'll understand our daily struggles. It's comforting to know that there are others out there who feel and think like you do. While this blog is primarily for me, it is also for them.

If you're reading any of my posts, please remember that they only really reflect how I'm feeling or what I'm thinking in a very specific moment in time. Please take it with a grain of salt, and remember that my writings are usually not about people who know and love us in our daily life, but are usually a reflection of a specific incident that has occured while we're out of the house and interacting with strangers. We have twice as many children as the average family and that seems to leave people speechless.

I'm not sure how many people are reading my blog these days, but I do want to thank you for reading! I promise to give a family update soon! We've been quite busy over the summer! I'll leave you with one of my favorite pictures from this summer. Everytime I look at it I'm reminded of that old song we used to sing in Sunday School about "sunbeams." I'll try to do a better job of being a "sunbeam" myself. Instead of a storm cloud!

Jesus wants me for a sunbeam,
To shine for Him each day;
In every way try to please Him,
At home, at school, at play.

A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam;
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
I’ll be a sunbeam for Him.