tired expectancy

I have to be honest and say I have no idea what I should or shouldn't write about tonight! I frankly am tired. I have had a busier than usual week -- one that has been both rewarding and scary all at the same time. The kids have been in a constant fall party mode for the past week and a half and high on sugar from all of the cookies and candy and cupcakes and ....you name it, they have ingested it! AND amidst all of that, I miss my husband. I think we have had maybe ten minutes all week to talk -- and that was mostly done over itching and lathering of anti-itch creams while discussing the possibility of adding a puppy to the household! HOW ROMANTIC is that! This is our life. Jackson, our new addition, is a blond lab mix puppy that has been so much easier to train than I had imagined and is fitting into our crazy household very easily. Spoiled already by not only the kids and Eric but by family friends as well. I am not sure yet that he knows our house is now "his" house! Amidst all of this activity I have this sense of expectancy of what the Lord might bring next into our lives at the rise of the new day. This new town of ours (or mine since Eric actually grew up here and seems to know just about everyone), is full of discoveries and possibilities -- and at every turn of a new day, I see so much that the Lord is blessing my family with. New friends, new opportunities, new eyes to see the lost and broken, new ears to hear the hurts and victories won. And now (thankfully) a larger heart, that is being healed and opened to love people for whose they are and not for who I perceive them to be. The Lord is good, and we are blessed. May you sleep well knowing you are loved and cared for by your creator and lover of your soul. I know I will! :)