Daily Realizations: Giving Thanks for Family

Sometimes in the middle of a crazy hectic day, there is a moment that makes time stand still and makes you slow down and take a breath and really appreciate life and what's most important to you. Today in between fetching an aunt from the airport, getting babies fed and changed and napped, picking up a brother from college and reminding myself that nursing mothers cannot live on coffee alone, the moment I captured in the picture below stopped me in my tracks.

I took the moment to give thanks for all of the great grandparents, grandparents, great aunts and uncles, aunts and uncles, that my kids are so blessed to have. Someday I hope they realize just how truly lucky they are, and that hubs and I can teach them to appreciate the unconditional love that their large extended family has for them. In this moment I also realized just how much love and support that hubs and I have in our families. Life would be much harder without all of their help, and as grateful as we are we don't spend enough time thanking them. 

Nothing warms my heart like seeing my grandparents and parents love on my kids.

My boys and their grandfathers, the grandfathers and their namesakes. 

I hope my boys realize just how many good men they have to look up to and from whom to learn.

 My boys have two great grandfathers, one great grandmother, all four grandparents, three uncles and three aunts who are all involved in their lives. I understand now why they say it takes a village... luckily our village lets us parent without interfering and instead focuses supporting, loving, and praying for our nuclear family.