Saying Thank you

I had a very exciting evening Tuesday night! I had gotten home and Logan and I were doing our normal weeknight activites: dinner, laundry, unpacking more boxes (YES, I"M STILL GOING THROUGH BOXES, DON"T JUDGE) and he reminded me that someone had sent a wedding gift that was in a box by the back door and we needed to go open it! So he opened this large box and started to pull out what was inside and my heart stopped! Inside was the most beautiful Kitchen Aid Mixer off my registry! Some sweet friends of our family had sent it to us as a Congratulations gift and I was so shocked and excited that it made me cry! Made my whole week(or Year really)! I happily found it a spot in my kitchen and tucked it in bed and kissed it goodnight (I'm only kidding, but you know how it is when you get something new....you can hardly stand it because you are too excited !) So I went to bed and then it hit me and my mind began to race. I started thinking about what a nice gift we had been given, and then I started thinking about our parents. My mom and Dad bought their Kitchen Aid mixer a few years ago and Logan' mom got hers 2 Christmas' ago. Here I am at 25 and I already have mine! I began to feel so guilty, because our sweet moms cooked for their familiy everynight and made every birthday cake and catered to our every requests! They deserved to get this way before I did..and yet they waited! I then started to think about all our parents have done for us through our whole lives and I began to look around and the things we have. Some of them are because of our hard work, but some are because we have parents who love us and wanted to give us the best life possible! They give us furniture or buy us "just because" gifts and I look at mine and Logan's life and think.."How did we get here, to be so blessed?" It makes me cry to think how easy we have it...I am so undeserving of all I have been given, and so incredibly humbled! Our parents, lived in tiny rent houses that had the washer and dryer on the back porch and had one car and rode the bus to work when they were first married! And now I'm crying again because we don't know that kind of life. God has blessed us so much and our parents worked so hard so that we wouldn't have to sacrifice the way they did. It breaks my heart to think about how hard they worked to put me in private school, for my mom to stay home with us and how we never wanted for anything AT ALL! Honestly, I could go on and on about all our parents have done for us and continue to do! They never stop loving, they never stop giving and they never stop encouraging!
Take a moment and say "Thank you" to your parents for all they do and for the life they have provided to us! If you just stop and think for a few moments about all they have done for you....you will realize just how much they have given of themselves, their times, their money and their hearts! (and then you will cry again because it will touch you so much!)
XOXO,