our dreams

(photo found on picasa by clare)

i have mentioned this before...that when i had beans and i felt overwhelmed and sleep deprived a friend said to me, "god gives you what you can handle." those words have gotten me through some pretty rough days in the last couple of years. so when i watch my husband melt into the couch after a hard day...i am comforted by the thought that we can persevere. that when we are shouldering the weight of the world we can handle it one bit at a time. we don't tempt fate in our family....we don't say "things can't get any worse," we try not to quantify, and somehow we make it. and the amazing thing isn't that we get through, it's that we still feel thankful at the end of the day. that we can take stock of what we have - our marriage, sweet pea and beans. and know that all the rest we have been blessed with may blow away in the wind...or might just take root.