Self-motivated kids

At least when it comes to school work.  Tony and I cannot complain about their performance and especially the fact that we don’t have to stay on them to get it done.  They might be lax in other areas, but this is one area we have to step back and say we have had it pretty easy so far!

...Faithful Friends

Who are willing to pray in earnest for needs absent or evasive of details.  God has blessed me many times over with the ladies on my women’s email group.

...that God sees Masterpiece

When I might only see the bumps in the canvas.  He knows exactly what I am going to need months in advance.  I saw today, possibly for the very first time ever, how even though God hates the circumstances that I might have to go through, He plans little things along the way to place people in my life for a specific purpose.  I saw a glimpse of the big picture and stand back in awe!  I hadn’t been able to understand why I had to work the last couple years when Kerrigan wasn’t in school…that wasn’t my plan.  And things that I perceived to be irritating at the time, God used to build a relationship that I suddenly needed to be already in place for a situation I faced recently.  What an awesome God I serve!

Energy

given when you most need.  I love that God planned for us to have children in our younger years!!  (I’m babysitting a 2 yr old today)

Protection

A friend of a friend lost her husband in a car accident this week.  I can’t even begin to imagine the number of times God has spared our family from similar fate.