Truth or Dare

Day 12: Dare to see the glass half full today.

I've gotta be honest...today this puts the 'challenge' in 'Gratitude Challenge'. It is rather daring today.

How do you focus on the good, or what you hope and pray to be good, and ignore the bad? Does ignoring the bad mean you are suppressing reality or choosing not to harp on the negative?

Today, I can actually count my glass completely full if I put my kids in it. And everything that comes with them. They are my joy and I would do absolutely anything for them. Joy comes in different forms when dealing with kids. Some don't find it joyful at all (and hence...don't have kids!). I'm talking about their homework that has to be done, reading with them, playing board games, playing Wii, walking away from this computer and leaving my phone in the other room to give them 100% of me. Taking them to their practices, play dates, birthday parties, bath time (ughhh...for Belle it's a long, drawn-out process since she'd rather LIVE in the water!). All that 'boring' parent stuff I know I'm lucky to be able to do. Glass: Full.

All these things they need that can be time-consuming, take me away from my 'me-time' and all that other stuff that seems insignificant in comparison to them are the things I will NEVER have the opportunity to do again. I prayed for them, was given them and knew what all (okay, not everything!) I was in for when it came to committing to a lifetime of raising my kids. I cherish I get to see them every morning before and after school and that they come to me to do their homework. I'll take every day I have with them as a gift and that makes for a very full glass.