Joy Joy Joy Joy Down in my Heart

Where have I been????

I guess life just gets a little busy.

I read something today that reminded me to find the joy in life! It's so easy to complain about everything. I really do that a lot. I think I've done that my entire life. I reflect back on one of my teachers even writing it down on one of my reports! WOW. Perhaps it's just human nature to grumble from day-to-day and think that something will surely change and get better when such-and-such happens. But NO! We shouldn't really have that attitude. If I don't enjoy life right NOW, I believe I will just become bitter. I see it happening in little amounts already! I don't want that. I don't want my kids to grow up with that.

I have a responsibility today that quite frankly I could look at and be all upset about! But I am going to change it around and look at it differently. It is liberating to make a choice of JOY . . . no matter what the outcome. I will take my two little boys by the hand and we will march in with JOY . . . . we might be marching out with a BANG, but hey . . . that's what boys do best! I am accompanying the high school choir for a concert this weekend, and I need to go rehearse with them this morning. The director doesn't know I'm bringing BOTH boys. To my knowledge, this is pro-bono work. But I will choose to just enjoy the music, enjoy the fact that I have the opportunity to have the freedom to do this . . . .

and when Big J teases Little L during rehearsal . . . he'll get the biggest evil eye he's ever seen!