Miss Whiny Pants

To reclaim my free time and find a little more peace, I took a week off from computer land, ie. photoshop, blogs, facebook, email, etc..
What did I do with all of my time during that week?

You will have to wait til tomorrow to see since I found a wonderful surprise awaiting me when I exited the shower today that I had to share with you. (I'm noticing a recent trend of interesting things happening around here while I'm in the shower, like my 4 year old playing hairdresser and cutting off 4" of her hair all over her head, resulting in me chopping off her beautiful long golden locks to her shoulders. I found hair that she had cut all over the house for days!)

Back to the topic at hand. I get out of the shower and hear my oldest daughter asking if I had invited a family that is close friends of ours to come over today?
"No", I reply.
"Well they are here with a bunch of tools and going to the backyard." She informs me.

I immediately knew they had come to tear up our rotted deck that we have been trying to get to for a year. I don't know why my tear ducts are always malfunctioning, but they promptly began leaking rivers of tears as I thanked my Father in Heaven for such wonderful blessing as these good friends.

They made short work of this project. It really helps to have the right tools for the job. My husband had torn up half of the deck this past week and they finished the other half today, just in time to load it into the community clean up dumpsters that will come to my street tomorrow.

I find myself whining and complaining to God an awful lot.

Then He reminds me just how blessed I am.