Dear God, I know that I don't pray very often any more. It seems that, when I start to pray, I get little interruptions. Then, when I do pray, it's because of emergencies caused by these little interruptions. However, now that my house is quiet, I have one thing to ask you... Please let my children be sleeping and not on a quiet adventure through my cabinets, drawers, or the toilets. Please let me find their darling little faces covered in tranquility as they dream of ways to grow big, strong, and healthy without thoughts of how to terrorize their sibling and finally climb to the top of the refrigerator in search of my secret stash of cookies and candy that I so desperately need at the end of each day. God, please also help my secret stash always stay full. Thank you for my children. But, more importantly, help me to remember that I am thankful for my children. They truly are some of my greatest blessings. I know this...I just don'...
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