Today the babies were the loudest creatures on earth. I’m pretty sure they got together and planned how to make me go crazy. Sweet little happy Chelsea decided this week that she wants to be a screamer, because apparently having two in the class already isn’t enough. She also decided that she didn’t want to take a nap and 35 minutes was an acceptable amount to sleep once she actually fell asleep. Due to her new favorite past-time, she woke everyone else up. Then, after work, I drove down to Orem to have dinner with the fam. Oliver was there, not feeling very good and making sure everyone knew it. So I had about 12 hours of screaming filling up my day (minus the nap time). That’s a lot of noise for one day. Sometimes, the things you’re grateful for are brought to your attention when you notice them missing from your life. Today I’m grateful for quiet moments.

Even if you don’t work with screaming children, the world is full of noise. Traffic, music, TV, social media, people. They surround us and constantly try to get our attention, and what better way to get attention than to make noise? We have forgotten in our society how to be quiet and still and not need to have something capturing our attention at all times. But those quiet moments are some of the most important times in our lives. The moments when we can hear ourselves think and let ourselves feel. I’m having one of those moments now as I write this and the silence that is surrounding me is giving me the space to feel gratitude for it.