52 Blessings Project - Week Six

I have been such a slacker at getting this done on Sunday! Hopefully that can change. I did do one for last week, and just post dated the post....so you can find it here.

The 52 Blessings Project

Once a week post a photo of something you are most grateful for. This gives us a chance to reflect on the good things we have learned from or that have made us better in our everyday lives or things we just enjoy! I think everyone needs to be more grateful for what they have now instead of always thinking about what we want! This is one of the things we can do to be more gracious people. It will be like a photo gratitude journal.

Week Six

This week I am grateful for the blessing of modern communication – mainly the telephone. I haven’t talked much about it because I was so upset at first, but right now Shawn is in the UK. When he had first told me about his work wanting to send him out there to instruct a class…I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe that they wanted to send him there when they knew how close I was to my due date. In the end, I guess it has been perfect timing. I had gone into my appointment last week, and every thing looks fine. The chances of me going into labor this week are slim, and then he won't have to travel after I have the baby.

We still miss our Shawn though. That is why the phone has been such a blessing. Last night Shawn couldn’t sleep so he called us right when I was getting the kids ready for bed. (It was actually around 3 am in England.) I put him on speaker, and he was able to talk to the kids, and then he sang with us as I rocked Sydney. It was the sweetest thing to watch Sydney in my arms with the phone next to her face.

I really can’t imagine how people survived being away from family back when there was no telephone. It is so nice to know that if I am having a hard day or just want to hear his voice, all I have to do is pick up the phone. Now all I have to do is make it through to Friday!