Sunshine On My Shoulders, Makes Me Happy

I am so happy the sun has been out this week. I'm sure it will start raining now that I've said that so I think I'll wait to wash my car.

The boys had so much fun just playing in the backyard the other day. All of a sudden the grass is growing and the flowers are budding. The daffodils point their faces towards the sun and seem to follow it as it crosses the sky. Piles of leaves cover the ground under our unknown nut trees. As I started to rake them up I was met by a little dog, poking it's face through the fence. (picture below) Thank God it was a little dog. The thing would not stop barking. Harley, (our cat) jumped up on the fence to taunt the little booger. She seemed to know it was all bark. We will need to board up the fence in a few spots. The dog is cute, but I'm not a dog person. (especially after Isaac got bit) Our neighbors also have chickens loose in their backyard. Dogs and chickens. Hmmm........

There is a lot going on right now. Some things require physical attention, like driving kids to their activities, making phone calls to health insurances, schools, banks and such, helping kids w/homework, feeding everybody etc.... Some things only require the use of the mind (at times harder than the physical), like helping a child write a paper, finding the information and transforming it into their own words without doing it yourself, figuring out our taxes, reading through bank info and credit card info so as not to get screwed. Some things are more emotional than anything else. Helping your children deal with mean kids w/o telling your children to just cuss them out or beat 'em up. (jk) The fighting between sibs. A loved one dying. Nothing you can do about it. Chicken soup ain't gonna help. It also touches on the spiritual, because you walk through your day praying for them to know Jesus. These are the hardest of all.....on me anyway. More on that later...for now I'm going to enjoy the SUNSHINE!! (and maybe sing some John Denver)