Today

After a week of being sick and a weekend with two hockey games and a full day volleyball tournament, I was pretty wiped out. So I got up late this morning. In half an hour, I had to shower and get ready, get the kids breakfast, dressed, and ready to go to school. I thought I had it just in time when I remembered I had to make lunch. The bigger problem was that I hadn't gone shopping this week yet and we had no food - no bread, veggies, fruit or anything else that is generally a staple lunch food. I managed to scrounge it all together and got out the door. Thankfully, the traffic wasn't that bad and after fighting for a parking spot in the school parking lot, I managed to get Jordan out the door just in time for the bell to ring.

Then I made my trip to the grocery store where for the next hour, I was battling the shopping cart, outrageous grocery prices, constant questions from my 4 year old and trying to remember what I had to buy since I'd left my list at home.

There is two loads of laundry that need to be folded and probably another load developing as I write this. I need to vacuum, mop and dust - again. Then I'll make another lunch, drive all over town chauffering my kids around and then prepare another snack because, once again, they are hungry. Thanks to the weird 25 degree temperature in late September (which I love incidentally), I have to mow the lawn again for the last time before the fall. Dinner is being prepped as I write though so at least that's taken care of.

And then there's the hockey emails that I'm procrastinating getting to...

It's been 121 days as a housedad and counting.

And I wouldn't trade one of those days for anything in the world. Being able to watch God grow these kids during this time of their lives is worth 1000 days of playing volleyball, 100 weekends away in Vegas and there's no amount of money that would make me change my mind right now. I'll never get these days back and with each lunch, snack and one sided conversation I have each day, I'm convinced that there's no bigger ministry, no better way to serve God, than what I am doing right now.

I'm not guaranteeing I'll feel that way 121 days from now. But as it always is. I'm thankful for the day I have as its challenges are all that I need to deal with right now.