Sacrifice
What is a sacrifice? I posed that question to my family, and here is the response. “Doing something you don’t want to do so that someone else benefits.” “Denying yourself something so someone else can have something.” “Thinking of another person and going out of your ordinary way to make a change.” “Giving up your wants or needs for someone else’s.” “A sacrifice looks like how you choose to spend your time, your money, and your things.” I took a moment to reflect on the sacrifices I have made as a mother and a wife over the past few years. I have sacrificed nights out with my husband to stay home with sick kids, watched Sponge Bob instead of Ellen, made breakfast instead of sleeping in, read books to kids instead of taking a hot bath and reading a novel, drove kids around to activities instead of resting on the couch with the stomach flu, and sacrificed time as a couple by working opposite shifts to avoid day care. But these sacrifices are so minuscule compared t