Thursday, September 23, 2010

Two hands full

My two hands are always full these days. Carrying my two "little" boys up and down stairs and over and through gates these days is more of a hunch-scrunch-shuffle. Never mind grocery shopping, which I'm still trying to figure out how to do gracefully. Oh, and then occasionally I do something silly like try to take picture of myself while my hands are full. You can see how well that went in these lovely pictures.

Reading this morning, I came across this little statement of gratitude to God - "You give me more than I can hold." Ha - that's me!

Every time I bumble around with hands full to overflowing with two babies, or a zillion bags of groceries, or textbooks, or laundry baskets, I'm going to try and let the awkwardness be a reminder to say, "hey, thanks God for giving me so much I can't even hold it all!"

3 comments:

Pedro Garcia Millan said...
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Don said...

Hey Jo!

I like this line, "Oh, and then occasionally I do something silly like try to take picture of myself while my hands are full."

It's important to make time for silly. It supplies happiness and perspective.

More-than-you-can-hold gratitude is a wonderful outlook. Nicely done!

(My co-worker's daughter is now a 6th grader at El Portal... her name? Johanna! She makes me think of you... and Grandpa Ken, who liked to pronounce your name as if it were this one.) ;-)

Susan Vose said...

Hi Jo! Your kids are so cute and getting so big! I hope tihngs are going well for you guys out there! I love reading your stories and thoughts...my cousin who is our age just found out she is having triplets! Craziness! Miss you guys!

Sue