Miracles and Gratitude
We capped off a very tough week with a wonderful weekend, and I am ever so grateful. I’m all about finding beauty...even in the hard times...but you’d better believe I appreciate the good when it’s good! (I didn’t always...I used to waste those precious moments worrying about when the weather would turn.) This week I experienced a happy accident and a really odd “miracle.” They will both go down in the books of my gratitude awareness. I was trying to capture this beautiful moment...when our frigid world warmed a bit and we finally got our house-bound boys outside. We took a walk to the park...it was a hike, actually, as we had to trudge through the snow. So, we let them play (pics to follow...) for a bit and treated them to the shortcut home. We generally do not take the shortcut, but it is such a fun (though short...hence the name) experience...a little uphill path cut out through the trees. And, as we broke into the clearing (and our neighborhood), it...