This guy. It’s his day.

As hard as taking a step back from work was, it came with so many gifts. One of the gifts came quickly.

I have never been around on weekday mornings with the kids. We have always had incredible people who loved on them and got them ready for school each day. When school started back up this fall, Jon was working from home so he took over the morning routine.

And I got the privilege of witnessing it for the first time in December.

Knowing gratitude is the antidote to fear, I have been intentional about focusing on gratitude and finding joy during the pandemic.  I’ll save some of the details for a future post, but wanted to tell you what is high on my gratitude/joy list right now and I want to hear what’s on yours! 

Here they are in no particular order:

What has happened and continues to happen in our country is heartbreaking and absolutely wrong.  I don’t feel like I have the words.  I definitely don’t have the answers.  And I feel helpless, not knowing what to say or do.  So today, Jon and I decided to do something seemingly small but significant.