{Me Thinks}

 so do what you can today...

Finally things are back to routine its so nice! If you've been reading my blog you know that I love schedules and routine we function better with it, all of us! The kids were happy to go back and I was happy to have them go back. I love em home but I love school too:) Thank you for the great teachers we have here!Two weeks was just a really long time to keep them entertained and busy we didn't have any snow and the wind howled most days its been eerily warm and unseasonable here. So we took them to the park and pizza hut one day {where K2 ate his first dinner lol he never eats supper he eats a large breakfast and lunch and has a snack around 4} Anyway another day D took them swimming for an afternoon they loved it! and loved spending time with Dad..so since k2 hates swimming and I can't get in the water we got to hang out at home. Another day dad took them to the church gym and took balls and they played and ran around and came home tired and happy:) Christmas was great new years too just a really long break.....

So we did New years at my sil's fun times....

we did K's birthday party

kids played with there Christmas Toys and wii time  

{L did too but she doesn't want me to take her picture:)

K2 opened his fun gifts from his birth parents, they {L&C} are the best ever and we love them to so much...

so here's to 2012....

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Me Thinks

Enjoying every minute you know the saying and I too get it every time I go somewhere and I'm  often thinking of the phrase Enjoy every minute do I?? do you?? There are lots of moments I enjoy and love but there are also moments I wish were over, moments I don't care to ever live through again and moments that break my heart moments of worry moments of loss of patience and moments I pray don't last long....but it does not mean I don't love this time of life these little children and this time this moment its just some of the little moments of the moments that are hard.....

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I read this article by  Glennon at momastry I wanted to share with you today  its really good here are a few parts.... I realized you know what I'm not the only who feels like this some days...read on....

There are two different types of time. Chronos time is what we live in. It’s regular time, it’s one minute at a time, it’s staring down the clock till bedtime time, it’s ten excruciating minutes in the Target line time, it’s four screaming minutes in time out time, it’s two hours till daddy gets home time. 

Chronos is the hard, slow passing time we parents often live in.

Then there’s Kairos time. Kairos is God’s time. It’s time outside of time. It’s metaphysical time. 

It’s those magical moments in which time stands still. I have a few of those moments each day. And I cherish them......

I think parenting young children (and old ones, I’ve heard) is a little like climbing Mount Everest. Brave, adventurous souls try it because they’ve heard there’s magic in the climb. They try because they believe that finishing, or even attempting the climb are impressive accomplishments. They try because during the climb, if they allow themselves to pause and lift their eyes and minds from the pain and drudgery, the views are breathtaking. They try because even though it hurts and it’s hard, there are moments that make it worth the hard. These moments are so intense and unique that many people who reach the top start planning, almost immediately, to climb again. Even though any climber will tell you that  most of the climb is treacherous, exhausting, killer. That they literally cried most of the way up.

And so I think that if there were people stationed, say, every thirty feet along Mount Everest yelling to the climbers – “ARE YOU ENJOYING YOURSELF!? IF NOT, YOU SHOULD BE! ONE DAY YOU’LL BE SORRY YOU DIDN’T!” TRUST US!! IT’LL BE OVER TOO SOON! CARPE DIEM!”  - those well-meaning, nostalgic cheerleaders might be physically thrown from the mountain.

read the whole article here nice to know we aren't alone and its okay

thoughts?

So here's to the moments we love, the moments we enjoy and the moments that are hard.... hope your week is full of moments that matter :)