Let’s get it together mothers. Let’s stop saying our lives are not glorious. Its true, our lives are not glamourous. Our lives our not filled with globe-trotting adventures. We don’t stand before thousands sharing words that inspire. We don’t live in huge houses with maids and nannies and swimming pools. Maybe you do, but it still doesn’t feel glorious – even with all of that. Motherhood is so…..ordinary. We live between the loads of laundry. With sticky floors and tiny hands….

My father-in-law has a saying as he leaves a store: We found something we just couldn’t live without.  It is a joke. He knows that. Most of the time we are buying things we don’t really need. The grocery store, browsing the aisles of Target, and window shopping at the mall allow me to face the reality of being grateful.  Am I a grateful for the things in my life? Am I thankful for all that God has provided? I would like to…