You can`t always get what you want...

So today I woke up at 5:00 a.m. and could not go back to sleep. I have a bad tendency to not sleep and worry about things that I cannot change. Like having to wake up at 6:45 to go to pray this morning, when all of Mexico is on vacation, and I am working. Or the fact that my kids are here and not on vacation and they are here working like they always do. But I was in charge of pray today, and I had a small pray picked out the read. And the end said that we are always given what we need, not necesarily what we want. And then I started to think about the Rolling Stones song, "You Can`t always get what you want" and it all made sense. The more I have to work and the more I feel like a slave which I feel like all the time, the more appreciative of life I am. And the closer and closer I am getting with my kids. But this past few weeks have been really tiring with all the demands of my job. I am a mother to 11 boys, and they always come to me when they are in need. I mean with everything, if they need a band-aid, a notebook, to open the dorm, or a hug they always ask me. It can get really tiring, but at night I think of all the hugs and kisses I give out, and it is a lot. Alone at night I give all the boys a blessing and a kiss and hug and tell them how much I love them. And most of them now will not go to bed without their blessing, hug, kiss, and I love you. And so when I feel like I give so much of myself to the boys, at the end of the day their simple kiss and hug and them telling me how much they love me is really what my job is all about. And their love for me is the best gift I have ever recieved. Yes I wanted a two week vacation, but after prayer today this just all makes perfect sense to me. These kids really need me and they really love me, when I got on the bus to go to mass I had so many of the boys wanting me to sit with them and hug them. These boys are just such angels and little God sends to have in my life, I cannot imagine how my life will be without them. I just need to tough out these next three days and give the boys as much love as I can, because all they have for me is love. And no I cannot always get what I want, but I have 11 boys who are giving me the most love anyone has ever shown me, and right now that is EXACTLY what I need.