Blessings Everywhere

Last night, Landon told me to go ahead and get a ticket to visit my best friend in Seattle while he stays at home with the kids. He also told me to go ahead and get the ticket that puts me home in the middle of a weekday so I don't have to get up super early in the morning to come home in time for him to go to work at a normal hour. He did all of this after gently carrying our sleeping son upstairs to his bedroom and put him to bed, with a gentle kiss and pat on the forehead. What a blessing to have a husband like Landon.
Today, when I picked up Mason from school, he asked me if I had missed him. I told him that I did, and he assured me that he missed me too while he was at school. Then he told me he loved me. When we got home, he asked if he could watch a show and have a snack before naps. While we watched Dora, he shared his cheese and crackers with his sister without any prompting, then snuggled up next to me and stroked my hair. What a blessing to have a son like Mason.
This evening, as I read stories with Marissa, she cuddled up close to me and smiled. She patted my hair and my arm and gave me kisses. What a blessing to have a baby like Marissa.
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with my sisters and their children. We exchanged stories, commiserated on shared experiences as mothers and wives, and generally enjoyed being together. They watched my kids so I could run my car to get some maintenance completed. Then we all went to dinner and had ice cream afterward, and I paid for nothing me or my kids consumed. What a blessing to have sisters like Caitlin and Meagan.
Everywhere I turn, I find blessings. Sometimes I forget to look for them, but they are there even so. Some of these blessings I really don't deserve, yet I benefit from them all the time. I am so grateful that despite my continued ingratitude and lack of perspective, I am so, so blessed.