Today

I am very grateful to be celebrating my husband's birthday today.  For one thing, without his birth 42 years ago he wouldn't be here with my now!  I can't imagine my life without him...especially as we go through these teenage years.  I am more grateful for him in my life than I can put into words.

For another thing, I'm not loving the end of our break this year.  I never felt overly "Christmasy" this year, but I enjoyed the holidays.  I loved the time spent together as a family, and I am very well aware of the fact that this much stretch of unscheduled time only gets rarer as the kids get older.  I treasured time spent with my kids, and try to do that every day.

The last day of this break though, is staring down at the tough part of winter.  The holidays are over, the dark bleak days of winter are staring at us with no end in sight, and long school breaks are done.  At least at the end of the summer break everything is new and exciting, and summer is so long everyone is kind of ready to head back.  This is the same old, and thanks to kids' choices, often tough routine we face every day, and it's hard to get geared up for it.

That is why I am even more grateful to celebrate the birth of my husband today...something fun for today!