looking for blessings...

I had to share this..just too sweet. I have been a pretty strung out person this week. Just plowing through my work and Matt out of town and lots of other things. Tired Momma at night. Anyway-I prayed on Wednesday morning that God would help me not to be so irratable and to look for the good things instead of feeling like everything was hard. It amazes me how God is listening and he is not slow to answer our prayers. It was typical crazy morning getting ready for work trying to get a load of laundry done and dirty dishes finished and Arden to eat her cereal. She even wanted a bath because she had a new dora toy for bath and said she was sweaty. So all the lifting and everything I was thinking I wouldn't even have time for a shower.
Well, as I was drying her hair and she looks at me so serious and says "Mom...I love you". You know you never expect that as a mom. It isn't so often that people say--thanks for always making sure laundry is done, or bottom is wiped, or anything else you can think of. It was just the sweetest thing. I have to store that away for when I am frazzled with a new baby and she is crying because Daddy won't let her watch another episode of Dora.