Love these guys

I just love these guys.  No it's not easy being a mom but I'd rather have my hands full than my hands empty. With all the challenges that come along with motherhood and childhood, I think we're ready to face a few more of them.  Maybe it's time to tackle Evelyn's binkie addiction.  Maybe it's time to tackle potty training.  Maybe it's time to reteach Ada not to wet the bed at night.  Maybe it's time to teach Sammy not to worry about first world problems.  But these are all small worries.  Ada will be starting school in less than a month.  She will learn to be kind, she will learn to not cry over the drop of a hat, she will learn that other little kids don't want to be mothered. She will learn other things that will be negative as well, which is what Jer and I are for.

With the last two busy months, I decided that I was going to take today as a "me" day.  I was going to update my blog, finish some personal unfinished projects, not clean, not teach reading, not teach piano, etc...  At first it went okay.  The kids went outside and collected roly-polies. They played together nicely.  They made a huge toy mess and in general just had fun.  I let them have as many fruit snacks as they wanted, etc... I didn't want to scold or anything.  I wanted to accomplish my selfish stuff.  But as I continued to leave them to their own devices, they began to get grumpy, started to fight, and eventually started to hurt each other.  They need things to do.  They need things to learn.  A half day of nothing was enough for them... more than that and they were bored.  I could have turned on the tv for them, or the wii, but honestly I wanted them to have a day to just be kids not zombies.  It seems like kids need parents in order to be kids.  I'm honored to be one of those parents.  We may or may not be able to have any more of our own.  Our kids may or may not decide that we are the bad guys.  Other parents may or may not agree with our lifestyle.  But God's work moves on.  Babies continue to be born to families, families continue to learn and grow, and we get to decide what we are going to do with ours daily. 

Playing house with cousins