How Things Have Changed

This morning when I got up I looked on this ol blog of mine. I forget actually what I was looking for - probably a picture. And I sucked in to post after post and a really overwhelming feeling of gratitude for staring this blog over 15 years ago. Oh my little girls and my very full life with them. 

I've been thinking about a full life and how life has changed. I have different tasks now than I did then. Things I didn't do back then: 

🧡 teach full time in a classroom 

🧡 plan and gather and review data and make copies and prep for my classroom 

🧡 communicate with my college daughter

🧡 help my graduate school daughter with life and things

🧡 have an instagram all about the coziness of our home and joy of living in New England in the seasons 

Things I did back then that I still do now:

🧡 decorate seasonally because it fills me with joy

🧡 write on this blog (although it has surely changed as life has over the years) 

🧡 clean our home 

🧡 laundry

🧡 bake and plan meals (although Scott as mostly taken over the dinners since I went back to teaching nine years ago) 

🧡 plan the holidays

... you get the idea... life is still very full it's just not filled with littles at home. 

Miss it? 

How could I not; of course I do and always will but I feel grateful that I got to do those years at home not distracted by having to be a classroom teacher at the same time. I got to do the naps, reading, walking outside, little bikes, pushing baby dolls up and down the sidewalk. How how blessed I am that those were my days... day after day after day. 

But now? 

Well now is glorious too. Here is why. I get to see what pouring in to those girls of ours all those years did. I get to see God's hand of faithfulness and how He led them step by step to where they are now and knowing that He will continue to as each day, each year goes on. And I get to be amazed. I am certainly amazed at the prayers answered and the twists and turns along the path that show where they are now.

So really, this small but meaningful life has been and will continue to be a joy and a delight no matter where God leads us. I am in His hands. 

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Tonight Scott and I used rolls of bubble wrap and carefully wrapped up and stored the girls play kitchen. I know we could have about ten years ago when Anna was 12 and Abigail was 8 (I don't think back then they were in the play kitchen ... maybe my 8 year old was), anyway we wrapped it all up.

At the end of the summer we took down the girls high school work area and put in two big wonderful desks (I've got to get a picture of those!) and decided that a nice sectional couch would be wonderful down there. I promise to take pictures when it's all done. That would be a fun post... a look back at this room and how it has changed so much over the years!