I’m such a whiner.  There are so many good things I could be blogging about and I keep on complaining.  I am at my mom’s right now.  I drove over on Sunday and since we "moved" to the Rainy Place, Mom’s house is only a FIVE hour drive instead of the old TWELVE.  I am glad for that.  But on the way over I listened to some Christian radio programming and one fellow was talking about Abraham and how he was asked to sacrifice Isaac.  It made me really ponder some things.  I realized that I don’t think God will ever ask me to make such extreme sacrifices or go through hardhsips like Job, but that those stories are in the scriptures so I can see how small my hardships are.

I’m not having any sort of picnic right now.  But I am not having a Job-like or and Abraham-like situation.  And if they continued to have faith, and if they managed to get through their garbage, than why shouldn’t I? 

And there are good things I can focus on.  Spider is walking!  She has another new tooth!  I was able to make a five hour drive with three kids and no adult driving companion!  We have food, shelter, clothing, my hub’s got an awesome job, I get to "restart" my Mary Kay business and I have friends and family who love me. 

Now, if I could just quit crying about everything, it just might be all right.