God has truly blessed me beyond measure. I have a beautiful daughter, and a little boy on the way. As my ever growing belly expands, my patience seems to shrink. Which is why I feel like I need to do this and make a list of the things that drive me nuts because I know that they truly are just part of God's blessing of my daughter, and someday I'm going to miss this stage. So ladies and gentlemen, here it is, the list of things I might think are aggravating but are true blessings in disguise that I am thankful for:
1. crawling into a bed of cracker crumbs at night, which my daughter lovingly put there for me
2. fitful sleep because I know in an hour I am going to be woken up and called to
3. little fingers prying my eyelids open when all I want to do is close them and rest
4. snuggles at 5am in hopes that I will get up and get a snack for her
5. cracker crumbs all over the floor I just washed 5 min ago
6. milk spots all over my new couch from a leaky sippy cup
7. 473 kisses for "boo boos" in a 24hr period
8. the bargaining for me to read her one more book (after already reading 10)
9. MUM, MUM, MUMUM, MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM
10. preparing meals for a little one who wont even eat it after whining all afternoon because she was soooooo hungry


.... and the list goes on, but you get my point. There are times these things make me want to scream and pull my hair out, but in the midst of all the whining and crying there is a quiet peace when a little hand reaches out for mine and wants nothing more than for me to hold her and love her. As much as these things get to me, I know they are blessings from a great God who wants me to savor all of this because it goes by so fast. So as the song goes, 'your gonna miss this, your gonna want this back' I know that I better love it all now because there will be a day when I don't have any of it.