This Bag

Today as I was putting away dishes everything was going pretty normal.  I put the plates away in their cupboard,  the silverware in their drawer but as I put the baby bottles up in their cupboard something caught my eye.  For some reason I looked passed my day-to-day normal activity and saw this... this bag

To anyone else, this bag is just another thing someone shoved in a cupboard.  But this bag, to me, brings back so many memories.  For just over a month....

every morning I would pull it out of the cupboard,

put in an icepack

take 6 BRIGHT orange bottles out of the fridge

make sure they were labeled correctly

put them in this bag

and zip it up.

Then I would load this bag along with everything else I needed for the day into the car

go pick Kole up from work

then we would park in a church parking lot

gather up all of our stuff including this bag

walk across the street

into a building

up the elevator

through a set of doors.

We would then put the bag down while we scrubbed our hands and up our arms.

I would take this bag into a little room

unzip it

take out the orange bottles

load them into another fridge/freezer.

When I was done I would take this bag  out of the room

around a big desk

through some big glass sliding doors

and place it on the floor

next to the chair that I spent so many hours in.

When I was all done I would take this bag all the way home

and the next day we would start all over again.

This bag is what I would put my babies milk in while they were in the NICU.

I spent a lot of time with this bag.

So to many of you reading this, it is just another bag. 
But to me it is a memory.

I don't know why today I am being so sentimental, but sometimes it just hits you.  Remembering all that we went through as a family and what we have gone through to get to where we are now, really puts things in perspective.

I am so grateful for my husband and my healthy, crazy, clingy boys.  I love each and everyone of them more than I could ever put into words.

When life gets hard, or stressful, I am  thankful for these little reminders of all the blessing I have.