Birthday Part 2

Here's a story that makes me think I might be doing a thing or two right. So, Wednesdays are complete running for me. As soon as school is over I have to pick Eddie up at the bus stop and take her to dance class and pretty much I'm picking up, and or, dropping off various children until 8:30 at night. I decided to bring all of the kids with me to pick Ed up from dance so we could go out for my birthday dinner. We went to Arby's-extravagant-I know. But the best part was that they were pretty good. No fighting or running around. Max and Eddie didn't even complain when I didn't sit next to them. They ate their meals and we talked and it was quite fun! Then it was back to running, confirmation classes, more dance classes and finally we got home around 8:30. I was bringing some things in from the car and the kids called me into the house and said they had a surprise. They had made me a birthday cake. It was beautiful. It had frosting, candles, and sprinkles (of course). Seriously, I don't know when they had time to make it but I would never have guessed that they would do such a great job. And on top of all of that - it was really good! Day to day life is really trying sometimes, but when you get a moment in time when you see that you might be making a difference, it makes all of the hard days well worth it. I'm going to keep believing in what I'm doing and looking at the big picture.