Since posting last, my darling Brownie started her first day of school. Yes, I'm scared about how too cool for school she looks in this picture!
Peach also started school--her second year!
You all know Peach turned four at the beginning of this month, but what I haven't told you is that we took her on a special date with mom and dad. We dined at Stix for lunch and Peach fell in love. She's always loved the hibachi style of cooking, but this place was just too cool!
We then headed off to a children's museum where she shopped...
watched golf balls swirl around ...
and shoot out of containers...
played in sand...
and gave birth to four babies at once!
and then gave them a check-up of course!
But like I said above, life, routine, whatever you call it, rolled around again. MOPS started back up (thank goodness). I've worked a couple of days and there are a few more to come soon. I'm starting a new job through an on-line college as an assistant teacher-- still not quite sure what all this entails. Halloween/Fall decorations are up. Clothes for all four darlings have been switched out to the new season (do all moms despise this chore as much as I do-- I'm sure they do, right?) or size! A new nephew will make his debut soon and I've been planning some fun things for him, and his mama of course! But much is still the same around here...
... with the regular 8-12 loads of laundry per week still being washed, dried, sorted, folded, but rarely put away. The tiny hand prints still cover many of my glass surfaces. And my basement is still {usually} a mess!
Much has changed, but much of the change was expected, so in a way it doesn't feel as if much has changed. Make sense?
If you peeked into my house right now, you see one sleeping baby in her bassinet, two siblings coloring at the kitchen table and the little Bug up to no good (as usual). You'd also see about 8 tubs of clothes that need to be taken to the basement closet, but your eyes would skip over those and look directly at our light-up Mickey Mouse pumpkin. Yes, there is a basket full of laundry sitting next to our love seat and a book titled Nurture Shock sitting at my feet. A vacuum cleaner is waiting to be plugged in and my sweet babes are waiting to make cranberry pumpkin cookies. Look out, I'm told they're delicious.
So, I'm off to control the madness, the mayhem, the chaos, the loveliness that is my life. But as ordinary as my days may be now that fall is on my doorstep, they never truly are anything but extraordinary.
... with the regular 8-12 loads of laundry per week still being washed, dried, sorted, folded, but rarely put away. The tiny hand prints still cover many of my glass surfaces. And my basement is still {usually} a mess!
Much has changed, but much of the change was expected, so in a way it doesn't feel as if much has changed. Make sense?
If you peeked into my house right now, you see one sleeping baby in her bassinet, two siblings coloring at the kitchen table and the little Bug up to no good (as usual). You'd also see about 8 tubs of clothes that need to be taken to the basement closet, but your eyes would skip over those and look directly at our light-up Mickey Mouse pumpkin. Yes, there is a basket full of laundry sitting next to our love seat and a book titled Nurture Shock sitting at my feet. A vacuum cleaner is waiting to be plugged in and my sweet babes are waiting to make cranberry pumpkin cookies. Look out, I'm told they're delicious.
So, I'm off to control the madness, the mayhem, the chaos, the loveliness that is my life. But as ordinary as my days may be now that fall is on my doorstep, they never truly are anything but extraordinary.
1 comment:
Great post, Lara. I love that Peach gave birth to four babies! And remember, when will you ever look back at your life and say, "I wish I cleaned more"?
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