Find The Beauty In Each Day

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This old gal…

Is not gonna lie…a little part of her heart gets heavy thinking about not being home on Christmas…

Gets easier every year…know what to expect…how to plan…how to fill in the gaps…and most of those gaps get filled…the lights…the trees…the gifts waiting to be unwrapped…but there’s always one thing missing…

Those daughters of mine…and everything that builds up to seeing those daughters of mine…the excitement…the giddiness…the thrill of thinking about being together again…

And so mama me fills that hole with things that remind her of them…their ornaments on the tree…cheese dip for dinner…the puzzle advent calendar…

Chose a beautiful one this year…the nativity scene…bring the Story alive with a tiny segment each day til the picture is complete…

Except this year…this puzzle…this brand new puzzle…something was missing…

Two pieces on day 5…thought maybe they’d pop up in a different day…sorting gone wrong…and funny thing two extras DID show up…but they were random oddballs…didn’t fit anywhere…

And so it is…there are times in life when something is missing…that hole tugging at your heart a bit…but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t special…that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful…

And that doesn’t mean that what you’re missing today…you won’t find waiting for you tomorrow…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…