Happy Easter

So here we are over a year later since I started this blog as a single mom, I have debated in the last week or so to go back to blogging on my Kennedy Family blog site, and have decided not to. This is me now, single mom, take it or leave it! I will be blogging more since I have decided to leave the Facebook world (going on over a month now and haven't missed it one bit!)

In the next few days I will do an official update on what all has been going on in our lives since I last blogged back in October, but for now let's just focus on the fact that it is EASTER! I love Easter, I love that it reminds us not just of the fact that Our Savior died for us, but that he ROSE just as HE said HE would. Just another reminder that God always keeps his promises. In that fact I find hope in each new day.

A year ago I would never have thought this is where I would have been today. Easter last year I was curled up in a ball on my bed, tears streaming down my face, in wretched despair that once again I was going through another year of holiday firsts without a loved one. I couldn't imagine doing that again, my stomach hurt at the thought of it, I was numb with pain, and I honestly was blinded with sadness and fear. But boy am I proud of how far I have come in that year, and I couldn't have done it without that one who promises me so much, that one who died for me so long ago. He has never let me down, starting from that first day on the cross.

I look at that sweet picture above, and I can't begin to tell you how blessed I feel. Some days are so hard it feels like I can't breathe. Some days the anger and the sadness overwhelm me to the point of no return, although those days are fewer and fewer now, they still come. But, that picture, those kids, and the joy they bring me each day, the fighting, the bickering, the oversleeping, the running around, and everything in between, that is what makes it all worth it. One day I will look at that picture and so many more like that one, and I will be glad that I had to walk this walk, I will be proud that The Lord took me on this journey, because I have learned so much from it.

Happy Easter to all of my family, friends, loved ones, and even those out there that I may not know. Spend the rest of today with those that you love doing something that you love, knowing that The Lord's promises are true and filled with glory.

"He Has Risen!" Luke 24:6