Monday

Some days you wake up and it’s a beautiful Hallmark movie morning.  It’s all bright daffodils and doves cooing in the trees and finches in the bird bath. The first poppies are blooming. It is spring and you see how God is in all of it.

Other days you cannot wake up when the alarm goes off.  You hit snooze, and snooze, and snooze again. When you finally do get up, you are (not surprisingly) running late. All the normal morning things still need to be done, but now you don’t have time to do them. Your son has just started to have a basically regular school day again (hurrah!), so for the first time in nearly a year he has to bring lunch to school (Not hurrah!).

Confession: it’s not your favorite thing, the daily lunch making. Yes, you know, you could delegate this job to him. You should delegate this job to him. But that hasn’t happened yet Continue Reading…