Sacrifice and Laughter

This morning I woke up a half hour early so I could make lunch (what Sam normally does in the morning while I finish getting ready) and breakfast (what I normally do). Sam tries so hard to do well in school, and I knew he would be tired in the morning (I went to bed before him). So I sacrificed some of my sleep so he could sleep in more. I took his alarm clock so it wouldn't wake him up and I waited for the last possible moment to have it go off. I hid the food and so when he saw it he would be so happily surprised. My husband likes to have a lot of food with him through out the day and I knew this would make him so happy.

We had a morning full of laughter! Since I knew we were going to be fine on time I was pretty relaxed.

So as I observed Sam find jeans just lying on the floor and as he, without a second thought, shoved one leg in after the other as fast as he could... I had to laugh and comment "Perfect! Jeans!" as I did Sam's frantic motions.

Sam started to laugh as well. As he did up the belt that was already on the jeans I said, "Bonus! Belt!"

Sam started to burst out laughing!! "Stop saying exactly what I think!" We were both laughing so hard.

The lack of sleep and sacrifice to do something special for the one you love the most, was such priceless gift that makes moment so precious.

"If we seek opportunities to work in behalf of others, the atonement working in our lives will produce in us the love and tenderness we need." - Elder Eyring