On Monday we celebrated Wyatt's 3rd Birthday! What really? He was induced 3 weeks early b/c of low fluid levels. Spent 5 days in NICU. Home 2 weeks then to Scottish Rite Children's hospital on Christmas Eve for 9 days for RSV. Now He is 3. All boy! I mean ALL! We have taken a hiatus from potty training b/c neither of us were fairing very well...more on that another time. But on Monday we celebrated his birth. I watched something in this little boy that made my heart spring anew. A grateful heart. It was beautiful. With every gift he said, "Thanks mom for my ____." As the day progressed he would come back around and say "Thanks mom for ____." It was constant, it was all day, it was breathtaking.
I am thankful that I was raised in a home where thankfulness was expressed almost for everything. Everything was cheered on...walking in the door from school (insert cheer), eating your dinner (insert cheer), going to the bathroom (insert cheer), skinning your knee...well maybe don't insert cheer but insert compassion....everything was noted and being thankful was shown to me and infiltrated my heart as well. Jason (my man) will tell you that in the beginning of our marriage it threw him a little as I would tell him thank you for just about anything he did around the house. I was/am thankful. Now this is where my mom would begin singing "It's so nice to have a man around the house." I too have sung this to Jason!
I share this b/c as I think that thankfulness is in us...it is also taught. Not all receive the lesson and then let it permeate...but I can think of worse things for my children to pick up on in our home...a grateful heart is definitely one I would choose for them over my struggle w/ perfectionism.
So Wyatt my love...I pray that 3 x 3 x 3 years from now you will still be grateful for all that the Lord has laid in your path.
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