Quiet times

Have you ever had a time where all you wanted was just to be quiet? Quiet from the yelling chaos of toddlers, sometimes playing, sometimes fighting,... whichever! :) Quiet from the constant thought process in your head. Quiet from all the "distractions" of life. Just to be still in spirit and quiet. That is where I am these days. I know that comes with the end of pregnancy, and I am SOOOOO thankful this is a temporary feeling. I am feeling the need to push through and plan everything from meals to babysitters to date nights to trips to things still needed for baby... You know, just the everyday hum drum in my head! :) So because I want to make the most educated decision I can at the moment I need to, I submerge myself in all the details of whatever I am trying to "plan". Like freezer meals and infant car seats that I have to only take someones word for in quality. It's exhausting! Then we add the normal potty-training toddler life to that, and let me just say, my husband is a miracle worker for getting all the laundry washed and dried, because I have been so busy trying to keep up with messes lately, it's making me a bit batty. And the encouragement I received today from my dad, "So you are at the beginning stages of exhaustion?" LOL!! Thanks for that! LOL! Yes, I know it will get worse before it gets better, but I am just looking forward to getting all the jobs done, so I can focus on The Job of birth! :)  That, and finding an end to the constant messes. But, then again, I guess that starts all over with this little one in about a year, huh? LOL! Well, I can dream, let me live in my moment, will ya? :)  So, in light of today's busyness: four time clean up of crushed goldfish in furniture, seven sets of peed underwear, four toilet bowl baths, 2 juice spills, 3 hot dogs chewed and promptly spit out all over the floor, countless screaming toddler fits, a few goose-eggs on 2 small heads from a wooden train track, 7 minutes of pure bliss in closed eyes, and of course a bath without the bathtub in the bathroom... I am freshly reminded that His mercies are new every morning, and that I should just Be Still! and know that He is God! For these things, and so much more, I am eternally grateful!