being happy where you are

People naturally look forward to things. And it's good. It's called hope, and people can't survive without hope. But it's easy to look forward too much, and then it's harder to be satisfied with the present. If only I had a little baby to hold in my arms, I think. If only we owned our own kitchen table and didn't have ugly mismatched chairs.


And then I skip out on the good moments. The moments like last night, when Sam fell asleep reading his textbook. It was so cute, watching him try to wake up and then fall back asleep before he had read a paragraph.


I don't want to skip out on these moments like my run past the temple last night. The sunset light was gorgeous, and there was a Young Women's group meeting on the lawn.


I think it's important to spend time being happy about what you have. This is such a great time in our family's life - we're young and in love and so blissfully poor that we don't even realize how blissfully poor we are. We don't have children yet, so we get to take 3-hour naps and take spontaneous trips together and stay up late laughing.


These are the moments. That and Sam's snoozing face on his open textbook and these hydrangeas on our beautiful table with the mismatched chairs.

What do you do to appreciate the present even while you're looking forward?

I love hearing your advice!