In “The Princess Bride”, as the grandfather is just beginning to read to his grandson, the boy asks the question “when is it gonna get good?”.  Sometimes, in my all-to-human way, I tend to ask that question about my own life’s story (as if G-d even owed me any explanations).  I look around me at all of the work that I must do, and anticipate even more to come.  I look at the repetition and monotony of many of my days (if you are a stay-at-home mom, you know what I mean), and wonder “when is MY life going to get good, or at least easier?”.  

It can be hard to keep you focus where it should be this time of year.  We are conditioned by our selfish human nature and by society to want more and to think that we deserve better than what we have, and forget that what we really deserve for our sins and our waywardness is death.  How good to be reminded that this is the season of Emanuel (G-d with us).  How good to be surrounded by things which force us to remember that if He had not come to die for us, we would, indeed, get what we deserve.

So, while I am trying to figure out how to wrap a guitar and a pogo stick with just one hand while toting a sometimes slightly wayward, but always adorable toddler about under my other arm, while simultaneously trying to keep that little cutie-pie from running off with every gift whether it belongs to him or not, I can remember.  If ever there were evidence of G-d’s great love for me in my own life, it would surely be this wonderful family that G-d has blessed me with.  These days with them ARE the good stuff.