Blessings When I Am Busy

I just want to tell you all how incredibly blessed I feel right now. I have been BUSY! Busier than I thought I would be this summer! We have some sort of vacation every 3 weeks (how awesome is that!) but that means fitting in a lot in between! We went camping and to Ruidoso (home away from home!) last week and I can't even tell you how wonderful it was to put so much focus on enjoying my little family while relaxing. This week brought on all the busy-ness of life, starting with VBS every morning. I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON! I do everything I can to avoid waking up before 10am, but it has been worth it and more! Today, I helped one of the girls in my group ask Jesus into her heart. How blessed am I, to get that opportunity? I love my group of 4th and 5th graders, and I am so sad that tomorrow is our last day as a group together. I have also loved watching my girls sing and dance and worship this week, while making friends and having fun! While this is going on, I am also working on a huge event I am hosting in July for multiple vendors to set up and for people to shop. This means many messages, planning, creating and organizing every day and it is coming together! I am getting to know so many new people through this event and that is definitely a blessing! I am working my LipBiz (selling SeneGence/ LipSense) by posting pictures, messaging customers and wearing my amazing products. I love that I get to have FUN making some extra money for our family (and  those fun vacations I was talking about!) I have also been able to spend time and connect with some awesome girls in our youth group. When I felt God calling Kort and I to be sponsors, part of me thought "Really, God, we are busy enough and you want us to do MORE?" but I am so glad we listened! The teens have really brought so much laughter, and so much perspective to my life in just a few months. They push me to try new things (kickball at my age??) and inspire me with their giving hearts. We are also hosting a July 4th Party at our house in a few days so the house is getting a good deep spring cleaning (a few months late I know!) We are having our Life Group from church over for food and fireworks and I am so excited! These are the people who we do life with because they are the ones that "get" us. We have kids the same age, we grew up in the same generation so we like and know the same things...like music. Last night a teen wanted to lip sing One Direction when I suggested something "old school" (this was a dare by the way haha). Seriously... I don't know anything by them! I am too old for that! Give me some 80's and 90's music any day!! OK, so back to my Life Group. They are the reason we committed to our church a few years ago. We are comfortable with them and when I am going through something (like losing a baby) they are the first ones I go to. In between all of this craziness in my life right now, I am still a wife, loving my husband, a mom, kissing my babies and making sure they are clean and fed, a daughter, helping my parents in any way they need because they do the same for me, and a homemaker, taking advantage of online grocery shopping, because it is a life-saver sometimes! If you have read this far, I hope that you get one thing out of me telling how crazy my life is right now. I hope you see the BLESSINGS. I am tired. I should be in bed. My house is not perfect. I have bills to pay. But I wouldn't want this life to be anything less than what it is right now. I hope and pray that my girls will look back and appreciate everything we are doing, because most of it is for them. I know I am not alone in the craziness. Most of us spend our days juggling and sometimes we drop the ball. But there is SO much beauty in the crazy, busy-ness of our lives if you just look for it.