A Moment of Greediness

It's a beeeeeauutiful Saturday morning. 

I am on-call this weekend and have been getting calls this morning since 5am, so my day started kind of early.

But I don't mind. 

Really.

Kenadie woke up.  I fed her.  She fell back asleep.

She is so deliciously cute, I can hardly stand it. 

So I'm reading a little scriptures

and letting my mind wander.

You'd think that my mind would immediately float to spiritual matters with my scriptures in front of me.

I guess I need to work on my spirituality, because I mind wandered to greedy desires.

For example:

I want a pair of red high heel shoes. 

I've never had red high heel shoes.  I don't know if I could pull it off, seeing as my wardrobe on my days off is so often yoga pants and a sweatshirt. 

I went shopping at our local thrift store yesterday.  

It was great and I got a lot of cute summer clothes, dresses, and pants for the Kenners, some large sweaters to turn into dresses for Kenners, and some shirts for myself all for under $40!  Woohoo! 

And I saw a pair of reeeeally cute red Steve Madden high heels that looked a lot like this:

 So cute.

It made me suddenly really want a pair. 

But, they were too small for me.  *sorrow*

So no red high heels for now. 

Then my thoughts drifted to laundry.

Ugh.  I hate laundry.

I have to haul the laundry down to the laundry mat, pay a lot of money to have a rickety old machine do a fair job at washing my clothes and then pay another machine to do a very poor job of drying them (I usually end up hanging a lot of our clothes to dry up around our little apartment). 

I wish I had a washer and dryer.  

I don't think I'd mind the laundry at all then.  It would be soooo much easier, I wouldn't know what to do with myself! 

Then I started looking through some blogs and had camera envy because so many bloggers out there have really good cameras to take amazing pictures with.  I would like to have a nice camera to get such nice pictures of our family life.

And now that I'm contemplating things a little more, 

I don't know that I'd change anything about my life.

It's okay that I don't have red shoes.  

That's something to look forward to someday.

It's okay that I have to drag my laundry down the stairs to the laundry mat

because someday I will have a washer and dryer and I will really appreciate it because I've had to go through a period of hanging my soaking laundry to dry all over my apartment.

And someday I will have a nice camera, but for the time being, our little digital camera will work just fine.  Besides, it's not like I taking photos for the National Geographic or anything.

I think I'll survive.

Actually, I'll do better than just survive, because my life is maybe just two crumbs shy of perfect.

I have a home.

I have a job.

I have a car that runs (not always great, but it gets us from A to B!). 

My husband is going through school to be able to help and serve others (and provide for the fam).

I have an incredibly cute, fun, vivacious little baby girl sleeping in the room next to me.

I can talk to my family on the phone whenever my little heart desires.

I can see my sister and her family often.

I get to go to San Diego in a month (woohoo!!)

and then to Utah in August (double woohoo!).

I have incredible peace and happiness in my life because I have the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Our family has been sealed together for time and all eternity in the temple.

Really, there is nothing more that I could ask for that would truly make my life better.

So go away greediness.

You have no place in my life.