Week 13.

This is the good stuff. A simple, ordinary moment in my Tuesday evening that sustained me the entire week. I was making dinner when I heard heady, joyful, unrestrained giggling in the family room. My youngest three were playing a card game their grandparents sent them for Easter called "Crazy Bunnies," and for just a few minutes the world disappeared. The economy, the price of gas, the length of my to-do list, the growing wickedness of the world I send my children into every day, the ways I fail, my anxieties about the present, the future, and my abilities to endure it well, all faded into nothing and quietly left my mind...walked right out of my house, closing the door softly behind them. We were immune and safe and together and, most importantly, joyful. My spirits lifted, my burden lightened, and I couldn't help grinning as I listened to my children laugh. Full-bellied, all-out. I don't think there is a better sound, and I am so grateful to have heard it.