Thankful Thursday

So, all day yesterday I wanted to blog about something! Well, waking up this morning with my husband and girls next to me I began to just feel so overwhelmed with God's goodness. In the midst of my bliss praising The Lord for my blessings....bananahead city began. The girls went into nonsense meltdown mode over nothing! Like instantly! Hah! I started loosing my patience super fast. I felt like "what the heck happened! Here I am so thankful and now this!!?" But, here's the deal I can't be thankful just when times are good I need to be reminded I need to be thankful always!

This had been a rough couple months and I don't always share to much about stuff that doesn't make the "highlight reel" ;-)
I think so many times we can get caught up in showing all the good times we forget that it ain't always sunny! With Mike being gone poses so many difficult challenges that I often don't think about or plan.

I have an amazing family that helps me out so much. It also helps that my husband is so willing to listen, change and adapt both as a soldier and a husband.

Being thankful can be so broad and general but today I want and choose to be thankful for a couple specifics.

1. Gods love and mercy he shows me as he waits for me to fall and look to him after trying things on my own and not working. :-)

2. My husbands patience and unconditional love that he shows me and our babies daily. He loves me regardless of my actions and I see Gods love daily shining through him as my partner in life.

3. For my girls when they are having meltdowns. I'm blessed to hear them whine and complain on days when they are not their perfect selfs. This shows me 2 things. One, how God must feel when I'm complaining and wanting something that's not in his timing or will for me. Two, that there are so many people longing to have babies of their own and how blessed I am to have these 2 with me regardless of their current behavior.

These are things I'm thankful for today and I pray that God will reveal his plans for our family even more in the next months ahead.

Choose to be kind and be thankful regardless of what you are currently going through. I included a pic right now from the mall... Neither precious dumpling wanted to take it whining "no, no pictures!" Haha! It was perfect because I was smiling because I'm thankful for all this even the "bananahead city" days!

Mahalo,

Dina