Wake Up!

Last night I was watching the Wonder Years on TV. It was all about Kevin's family going on a summer vacation to the beach. All three of the siblings are teenagers and as you can imagine, no one really wanted to go, let alone go and do anything together as a family. Throughout the show Kevin reminisces about what family vacations used to be like when they were all younger, everyone smiling and having the best time. The show ends with that happening again. It made me think, one day my kids will all be grown up and not want to snuggle with me or do things as a family either. Its a normal stage of developing their independence. I still remember (and regret) the year I went to the beach with a friends family instead of going to New York with my own.

We are going to our yearly "kind-of vacation" to Jekyll Island in a week. I say "kind-of" vacation because the main purpose of going is so Wesley can take classes to get re-certified to continue practicing law. He has to go and sit in lectures all morning for 5 hours. I have been stressing about going this year. Now we have a newborn and a toddler, how am I going to watch them at the pool by myself while Wesley is gone? What will I do to entertain them all morning in a hotel room if I don't go to the pool/beach? How will Foster ever be able to fall asleep when we are all in the same room together? And many, many more silly questions fill my mind. Last night as I'm sitting there watching the Wonder Years I realized, none of that matters. What matters is that we will all be together as a family making memories. Kids grow and change so fast. I need to hold on to each stage they are in because soon they will be on to something else.

God has given us a gift with Wesley's job that we get to go to a beach every year on basically the governments dime. How can I take that for granted? And more importantly, how can I not be excited and let Satan to take away my joy?

There are so many other important problems in this world that are alot worse than "How am I going to get my son to sleep?"! I will waste away my whole life if I spend it worrying about such petty things! I never imagined God would use a Wonder Years episode to snap me back to reality! Like I said a few posts back, He meets you where you are, in whatever circumstances you're in! What an awesome God we serve!

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not your life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

~Matthew 6:25-27