These are the best!

I heard one or two people say that they read my blog and thought it looked like I have a perfect life. I do have a keeper of a husband who also happens to far beyond an average dad, great with the budget, to whom I am a priority, and a looker of whom someone once said “Claire, he’s so good looking it’s like you’re married to a movie star!” I do have an even two boys and two girls, who between them have four colors of hair (red, blonde, brown, bald & unknown) and dazzling green or blue eyes. They are the sweetest things ever. They are smart and full of life. I do have a close and loyal family, extended family, and many friends who are just as wonderful. I have so many of my physical needs met.  But no, my life isn’t perfect.  

I used to have a bad habit of turning to my blog when hard times came, when there were troubles or I had a heartache. I’d post these quotes or poems that hinted at sorrow and troubles and breakings. But sometime just a little over a year ago I had a change and turned a new page. I think it was something that I read that changed me. And I determined that I’d only shine the spotlight of my blog on the blessings in my life. I’d post the bright spots. And if I felt sad or hurt or angry or sick or troubled –I would make an extra happy post at those times. Hopefully my blog has been more of a joy to visit since then. I know it’s certainly been more of a joy for me to post.   And for today’s post I’ll get to what I really wanted to say. Which was this: I am the mother of four beautiful children who are eight, and almost six, and three and a half, and six months old. THESE ARE THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE!!