I don’t enjoy being inside. Working out at Camp has reminded me of that. I function much better when I am working outside. So, how do I balance life being a mother of 3 boys with all the laundry and the cleaning and the cooking with my love of the outdoors? Seriously, it is so depressing being within these walls and really being unappreciated for the most part. I feel like I can’t even be a mother for having to be a maid. “Do all things without grumbling or complaining.” Ok. Here goes… thank You, Lord that we have clothes that need to be washed. Thank You, Lord, that we have food that needs to be cooked and toys to stumble over. Thank You for warm beds to make up. Thank You for business to have to keep up with and money to pay the bills. Thank You for friends to prepare for and a refrigerator so full of food that most of it needs to be thrown out. Most of all, thank You for these children who need to be bathed. Thank You for giving them creative minds to do art work and strong minds to have homework. Thank You for feet that need scrubbing and fingers that need to be groomed. Thank You that Jon Garrett took off his underwear and colored his pee-pee brown with a marker and said, “Look Ma, tootsie roll!!!” It made me laugh. At least it wasn’t a permanent marker like the drawings on my walls. Ok… I feel a lot better. Funny how counting your blessings changes your attitude.