"One Day More"

Summer 2014 flew by so fast!! Every day I told myself it is "ONE DAY MORE" with my family as we anticipated sending off Ben on a 2 year mission to Lyon, France. I have no regrets and I lived every day to the fullest. There are no "last times" because we will be together again and I look forward to the growth and wisdom that will come to me and to each of my family members as we love and support Ben on his mission.

This summer, I learned a lesson I needed....  "One Day More" is to find gratitude and joy in the moment and it begins in my thoughts before my actions. When I would think of our days as "the last time we will....", I would get so sad, depressed and almost panicky that it had to be perfect. It felt heavy to carry. But one day the words to a song from Les Miserables kept coming to my mind... "One Day More", and I loved it!! "ONE DAY MORE" to live my life to the fullest, to enjoy being in the presence of my loved ones, to smell, to see, to touch, to taste, to feel happy and joyful about our eternal family!!!

Now that Ben is gone, I embrace "One Day More" in a new way: of spiritual growth, of new experiences, of spending time with my children who live at home, of working through the aches and pains of separation for a time, of letting go of my children as they enter independence, and of gratitude for being a wife and a mother!!

Celebrate today and everything that goes along with it because one day it will only be a memory!!