Today

One of the blessings of having a lot of children is that after a morning when you yell too much and love too little, hand out too many warnings and don't follow through quite enough, when one is crying, one is pouting and one can't find the books that should have been on the library shelf...after all is said and done and you have blown your top, lost your mind, turned a bedroom completely upside down, had-it-up-to-here-and back, and everyone rushes out the door to school in a huff without the customary huggin' and lovin-givin'...

After all that...

Still one child emerges to crawl into your lap, pat your face and say something silly that you-can't-even-remember-what-it-was-a-few-hours-later, but boy oh boy do you both ever laugh and smile and completely forget all about the ugliness that had filled the house only moments earlier.

The journey goes on.  This life-living, Mama-being, pursuit of love can't stop.  

But one things is certain:

Today...forgiveness must be our constant companion.