These are the days...

Sometimes I find myself in a moment where I just stop and look at my life like a snapshot. Like, here I am, with a baby, working from home, loving my life and I realize that these are the days I'm going to look back on and MISS. I'm always going to strive to live in the moment but it will be inevitable that I'll look back and a part of me will wish for these simple days.

And it also makes me treasure the moments that much more. Each moment, even if it's good or bad.

Even when Jayden is crying and I don't know why, I know that I will miss being able to easily console him by holding him in my arms. His "issues" are so simple right now, and I know one day his "issues" will not go away with a simple hug.

Even when I'm crazy busy at work with a deadline and I don't think there's enough time in the day to get it all done, I know that not everyone gets to work on their deadline and still get to see their family. I still get to kiss my husband when he gets home and nurse my son when he gets hungry and make sure our house is a home.

Even when I DO have to work, I still get to take time to spend moments with friends during the day. And that's exactly what made me stop today, just for the briefest of moments, and realize that life is so good right now. Even though I have a full day of work to get in today, I still got to see my son wake up, get him ready for the day, which is one of my favorite things to do because he is so gosh darn happy in the mornings, and go meet my friends and their kids for a morning walk.

I've never had a group of friends that get together on a consistent basis. I've always been blessed to have one very good friend that I would spend most of my social time with but now I have a group. And it's really not that it's better nor is it worse. It's just different. And I love that we are all friends because we are in a common place in our life and share the same struggles and blessings.

It's so fun to all get together and have all our kids together and I even like the general chaos that comes with having so many kids of different ages together.

Besides myself and Jayden (4.5 months),

there's Addie with Harlee (22 months), Trace and Ashton (7 weeks),

Becky (pregnant with #2 - 14 weeks) with Tyler (14 months),

Mandy is 31 weeks pregnant with #1,

Meredith with Colton (5.5 months) and

Natalie (pregnant with #4 - 25 weeks) with Jace (2), Tevyn (5) and Jayden (7).

We're going to be losing Natalie soon though. Her husband just got a new job so off they go to Indiana. That's the downside of having what we happen to have in common - all our husbands could get new jobs at any moment and then we move away.

But on the flip side, we're always gaining new faces too. We just gained one more new wife, Sarah with Jordan (2).

We all talk about getting a picture of all of us together with our kids because it will be so fun to look at it later and see just how crazy big our group is with the kids and the strollers (and the dogs too when we walk outside).

It's actually really humbling when I look at where I am right now in my life because God has blessed me so abundantly and he's proven to me again and again that He will provide for us just as we need it.

And now, I leave you with wise words from Van Morrison:

These are the days we must savor
And we must enjoy as we can
These are the days that will last forever
You've got to hold them in your heart.