This saying could not be truer. I suppose you could also say something like always find the silver lining for my day but truly appreciating the little things is what gets me through many days. Obviously some days we have big magical moments but most of the blessed moments of my life come in the smallest of packages.
By all normal judgments today has not been an awesome day. I'm feeling less than well...lets be honest I have a stomach bug of some sort to the point that when my son asked if I was going to exercise I not jokingly said, "I can't sit up. I won't be exercising." My primary goal for today was to get enough liquids that I stayed hydrated.
I'm normally on morning duty with the kids which I really enjoy for the most part. I am a morning person and I don't need to set an alarm. All good things. This morning though I realized upon my sons request for milk, and my inability to easily get off the couch to bring hims some, that I would have to go back to bed and hand over morning responsibilities.
I had help for dinner too but the big excitement in my house these days is bed time and I was flying solo for bedtime. My patience was gone and my inability to snuggle hampered by my painful tummy. I was not looking forward to bedtime. I couldn't chase, tickle or snuggle my boys at all. I wasn't sure how it was going to go. So I started bedtime, extra, extra early in hopes that even a slow bedtime would get them to bed early. By some miracle my kids went to sleep on the first try tonight. I don't even know how that was possible. Seriously, I don't know how. It was like some form of magic. It sounds like such a little thing but today it really was such a big thing.
Moral of this story is to not wait for the future to look back and realize the little things are the big things. Enjoy the victories, even the small ones when they happen because frankly, you'll appreciate them more now then in the future, looking back. Today I barely stayed upright but darn it, my kids went to bed. Success!