Today I looked around at my Christmas decorations trying to will them to put themselves away.  It didn't work.  They are still up and still haunting me with the dreadful chore.  Don't get me wrong, I love the decorations, it's the putting them away I don't like.  I feel like I start getting out the boxes to put them away and it's like opening Pandora's box.  The storage room feels like I have to overhaul it to get everything to fit back in and then there is the task of redecorating my house back to normal.  It makes me tired even thinking about it.  I am a whiner aren't I.  BUT, in the midst of it all, next to my nativity, Heaven said hello through a beautiful flower my dear, sweet, thoughtful friend gave me for my birthday.  It is a red amaryllis, and it started blooming on the 31st and today all of the buds are completely open.  It is brilliant red.  I love the burst of color on an otherwise cold, dreary day.  The beauty of nature always brings me a little closer to God.  Just thinking of the miracle of it.  I planted this ugly, dry, uninteresting bulb, in the dirt.  Gave it a little water and waited, and then miracle of nature occurs and a few weeks later a beautiful, magnificent flower emerges.  I love it and I love that it is from a friend and that I am able to think of her and how much she means to me as I see it.  Thank you little flower. 

It's about time

Well it's a new year and that means resolutions.  A resolution for me is to really focus on all the ways I am blessed this year.  So that's why I am starting this blog.  I don't care who sees it for in the end it really is only for me.  The title of the blog it Heaven Says Hello.  When the twins were first born, I made a little onsie that said, "Heaven Says Hello" because I just really felt like their birth was a gift from heaven and having them was like heaven telling me hello.  Like a reminder that our Father in Heaven is there and that the small and sometimes huge gifts He gives us are literally, Heaven saying Hello.  I don't know if that makes any sense but that is how I feel.  So this year I really want to see the ways in my life in which God is showing me he is there.  I want to see those things He does to say Hello.  It is my hope that by having this blog it will force me to find Him everyday. 
Today, the Hello, was in the form of my mischievous 2 year old.  She decided to color on the walls in three rooms of my house and also some toys and my 8 year olds pillow.  Although I was mad, I couldn't help but laugh.  It really is kind of funny that I leave her alone for 2 seconds and she can do this much damage.  I told her she needed to say sorry, but being stubborn as she is (kind of like her mother) she refused.  It wasn't until about 30 minutes later when I am still trying to clean it all up that I hear, "Sorry mommy" in the sweetest little high pitched voice.  How can I be mad when she sounds so cute and finally apologized in her own time.  Pretty sure God doesn't care when we apologize, just as long as we someday get around to it.