A Picture Worth a Thousand Words--- and really big smiles too!

Tonight, I am inspired by one thought: Our Family is a Circle of Strength and Love! Yes, that's right. I got this saying from a beautiful decorative picture that I came across in a fabric store. This phrase did (and still does) all kinds of things to my soul. My heart smiled with gushy feelings and my spine straightened a little bit more in a fierce warrior defense stance complete with the mixture of pride and adoration for my family. Like all others, we've had our ups and downs. We are imperfect people constantly being tested and not always walking away with a fat 100 Excellent Job kinda score. We faulter, we fail. We trip and fall and stumble back to our feet. And in the end, we keep on going. So, I'm sure you can tell where this is going. I wanted that frame in my house. I was rushing to get to class and left my sweet Nathan and his mom there to finish purchasing the items we were there for initially, leaving no more thought to that frame other than "I will be back for you!" And yes, you guessed it- that handsome man bought that frame for me! How great is he?! It is now proudly displayed in my living room with a whole wall all to itself. :-)

I look to it often and smile real big, and again feel at peace with where my heart is: HOME. My family keeps me going; they are my inner circle of insanity sanity, comfort and memories. Big thanks to Nathan for giving me yet another wonderful gift. XoXo