One of the things I'm really enjoying about my life right now is how capable my children are becoming. I used to have to do everything myself. . . laundry, cooking, baking, cleaning, wiping bottoms and noses. I am now in the amazing phase of life in which I can do the managing and let the older children carry some of the load. Today, for example, I have a head cold and spent the morning in bed. We were expecting my father in law for Christmas dinner and had many things to accomplish before he arrived. A few years ago, we'd have had to cancel or I would have been up with a splitting headache, cooking and cleaning. Instead, I was blessed to have Shannah cook scrambled eggs with sausage and cheese for breakfast, Eliza bake Grandpa's Christmas cookies, Shannah bake another kind of cookies, and Ericka handle all the dog chores. Wendy did dishes, Shane shoveled the deck, and Linnea did her best to sweep and pitch in wherever she could. . . "Mommy, do you have a job for me??" It is days like this that I wake up discouraged and go to bed feeling incredibly, incredibly blessed.
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