the little moments

I’m starting to realize more and more that it’s the culmination of little moments that make up life. Yesterday morning, Ethan helped Terry do the vaccumming. Watching the two of them work together and hearing Terry teaching Ethan the fine art of cleaning, warmed my heart. Not just because my husband is so helpful and kind, but because Ethan was loving sharing this moment with his Dada. Ethan loves spending time with us, it doesn’t matter if it’s cleaning or going to the zoo, the important thing to him is that we are loving him and talking to him and sharing life with him.

Ethan and Seth love helping me cook. I had Terry take a few photos of us cooking together. Looking through the photos afterwards, I could see the look of seriousness and concentration on each of their faces. It really pulled on my heart, to see how intently they each were taking in what was going on. All the more to slow down, and fully experience what they are experiencing alongside of them.

These little moments of shared time are what adds up to be the big thing of life.

things I love

Little flowers such as these.

Little fingers and toes such as these.

I hear ya...

I cannot believe how busy things here have become. Adding a new addition to the family is quite a lot of work, however I am so thankful. So far I am homeschooling A, taking her and E to swim lessons and Awana, and that alone has created a busy schedule. I even had to take A out of music lessons because it was just too much for me! After I withdrew her it was such a huge burden lifted. That said and E is still on paternity leave!!! So there are two of us around. Also, everyday I tell myself I am going to workout and it never happens. I should maybe just put that on the backburner for awhile. It might not be the season in my life to workout.
On another note, I found a really great blog you should check out...
http://humblemusings.com/
Sorry so scattered but that is just my life right now.
Miss you friend!

movement

The day to day pace of life is slowing down, but my calendar seems to be picking up. There are so many things that I would love to be able to spend time doing, but at the current moment I don't have the time or energy. I'm realizing more and more that my way of seeing life can become very limited. Meaning, that I can go through a couple of days and think that those two days represent how my life has always been and how it will always be. This can be a good thing, if the past two days have been good, but it can be a bad thing if the past two days have been bad. Yet, I am learning and realizing that the saying, this too shall pass, is a true saying. If things are bad, then I just need to wait, it will pass and if things are good, then I need to soak up every moment of it because it won't last forever.

I'm really enjoying my time with my children recently. There still have been moments of sheer frustration, but my perspective and focus haven't been on those moments of bad, but rather on the moments of good. They really are a joy to share life with and I am so thankful for each of them in my life.

I've been taking heaps of photos lately, and realizing the limitedness of my camera. T works for a school photo company, so we might score a used camera from them for cheaper. That would be awesome. I really like the photo above out of all my recent photos. It honestly isn't the best one of the lot, but I like the colors and that E is a blur. It's a true reprensentation of our days, children moving about constantly, things going quickly, yet slowly.