Monday Morning...

Well...I am sitting here listening to the hamburger brown in the pan. I am much like my Dad...I can NOT stand browning hamburger and the smell of it is repulsive. But since we want to eat, we put up with it :)

It's been a Monday. You know: kids fighting after being awake for 2 minutes. Crying at the breakfast table...again. All the things that make me think to myself 'what did I think would be fun about being a Mom?' Then the moments when the kids are all done fighting/crying/arguing etc etc and they look at you with a big smile and say, 'Mom...you are the best'. The kisses and hugs as I send them off to class. Hearing them repeat me, 'What do we always ask you to do? Do your best, that's all we ask.' I love it.

Motherhood is not an easy road. Some days I want to go bury my head in the sand.

BUT...in the quiet moments I am gently reminded about all that He has given me. Not just 'gifts' in the form of a blond, brunette, and red head. Or the wonderful husband who shows me he loves me in little and BIG ways. But the tasks that God has entrusted to me. The Women's Ministry Leader has been such a HUGE excitement to me! Being able to ask Him what He wants our women to do to reach our community. Not just the women in our church...but the women that live near us. The women who may have never known His love, or have been turned off by those that say they 'love' them, but don't.

The newest ministry our women are doing is serving supper at the Ronald McDonald House!! How exciting this is to me. Since we stayed at a RMHouse when Bailey was born, I know first hand how the parents are feeling. We are sooo excited to make their supper, serve them, and just show them that we care and want to be there for them when they feel lost, uncertain, the ups and downs of children in the hospital!

GOD IS AMAZINGLY GOOD! It is humbling to know that He has entrusted me with His work!