Sickness Abounds

This past Sunday, Hannah and I woke up not feeling well. By Tuesday, Andrew was blowing his nose and sneezing. Today, Sierra has started coughing. Praise the Lord, I am feeling some better. The thing that is bothering me the most is that everywhere I look something needs done. I can handle my children getting sick but when I am sick things go undone. With 5 people in our house that is a lot of little messes. To add to the mess, today we got about 4 inches on SNOW. All my children wanted to go outside. At first, I was trying to talk them into staying inside. Then I realized that God gave them a blanket of white to play in today and why was I trying to steal His Joy. I sent the older two outside and said that Hannah and I were staying in. That was a good compromise. Don't you think? Well, as I sat drinking my coffee and looking out the window, I realized that I needed to get up and get out. Today was a day to make a memory with my children or I could just have them remember me being grouchy. I got up from my chair, dressed in warm clothes and dressed Hannah who was very willing to go "Out - Snow". (The Holy Spirit was not the only voice I heard telling me to go OUT. Hannah was standing by the door and saying, "Out - Snow" the entire time I was trying to justify staying INSIDE.) We stayed outside and played until Hannah decided to put her hand in a bucket of half frozen water. She also sat on the wet driveway that was covered in slushy snow. I had to do some convincing but she went inside when I mention her favorite movie. (I will get to the favorite movie another day.) After, we got the wet clothes off, I made some homemade Hot Chocolate and invited the neighbors over for Hot Chocolate. Over all, today has been a good day. My house is still a mess. Laundry still needs done and I am still clearing my throat. (Andrew said, "Mom, you sound like a horse.) But, I had a good day with my children.