I have so many blog posts in my mind...I need to write about our last day at Universal Studios, our trip to Durham to visit Dave & the twins and what we've been doing with home school lately. We're finally getting settled down now that Upward is over and we're home until May. I've been spring cleaning and organizing like crazy but our house definitely needed some TLC after months of neglect.
Today was such a sweet day. We didn't do a lot but I feel like I got so much accomplished. I sat in the floor with the kids and played what they wanted to play. We worked on mini greenhouses (made from empty rotisserie chicken boxes) for school. I'll post pictures soon.
This afternoon, as supper was cooking in the stove, I gave Amos a bath in the kitchen sink. He splashed happily and "chatted." From where I was standing I could see Hannah & Samuel, dressed in their new cowboy/cowgirl outfits, jumping on the trampoline.
It's these small moments that encourage me as a mother. Bathing my plump little baby and smelling his hair as we snuggle. Watching my two older children playing happily and laughing together. I know I'm probably not making a lot of sense. It's just hard to put into words that feeling that catches you by surprise as you go about your day. That feeling that, even though it is so hard sometimes - and there are times I want to just walk out the door - this job of being a mother is fun and crazy and full of adventure. It's sweet and wonderful and I don't want to be anywhere else or doing anything else. Soon enough they'll be grown and all I'll have are these pictures and memories.
