...It's a Merry-Go-Round!!

And I'm getting dizzy! The extra, extra busy time of the year has hit!! If I make it through the next two weeks that would be great!!! Between schools, sports, special projects, school projects, sports, work....whew!! I do enjoy it though -- but boy it certainly deserves a day at the beach when it is all done! :)

There is one day a week I just feel like a taxi driver between 3pm and 6pm!! Most of the time I make the kids walk home from school (even though they are bussed), but Wednesdays are just too busy!..... Last week I had to laugh as I waved goodbye to my neighbor lady who was working in her flower beds. A bit later I waved hello. A bit later I waved goodbye -- then hello again! Carol was laughing too...she had 5 children and well remembers the days I am now living!

When my children were babies I often thought life would be less busy when they got older!! What silly thinking on my part! It stayed just as busy -- only it is a different busy and they are usually not at home! I am enjoying it, I'm enjoying my kids being able to chat and tease. I'm enjoying that the correcting is getting less and less (and boy do they find it painful to lose their ipods, or xbox!!).

There was a time I did not want my children to have the "gadgets" -- and while they do not have a lot of gadgets they do have a few and there removal for bad behavior is VERY effective! :) I'm pleased with the responsibility I see them beginning to take. I love how they love their sister! (To the point they let her sleep in their room so she doesn't have to be "all by herself"!!) It's also lots of fun to have them cook dinner! They can be very creative....it's good the boys are learning these skills for the future, I want them eating more than just mac-n-cheese and hot dogs!

Well this is all I have time for today....it's almost 6am and the merry-go-round is getting ready to start turning! I work all week and then Friday I go visit butterflies with my daughter! Right now I don't even want to think about the weekend...looks like we are double booked on everything this weekend! Everyone is hoping we find time for laundry! ;)

Spring Break!

It has been a wonderful week! Everyone is home and it is spring break! We have just enjoyed being home and not doing anything! Relaxing together! The boys are getting a little stir crazy, so tonight we plan to go late night bowling (I couldn't believe how excited they were for that!) and tomorrow we'll probably go see a movie -- we all have free tickets so it'll be cheap fun. We would like to go to the zoo or the aquarium, but that over a hundred bucks or so after it's all been said and done, but here in the Pacific Northwest we have our wonderful rain that does not seem to want to disappear! :)

Been struggling with life "going on". Back home life goes on and continues to be busy and chaotic and all the good things that are involved in that! And my life with my family goes on here -- in away I feel like each of us is missing out....and I really feel for my Dad, who is missing out! Missing his memory, missing his home, missing his family, missing familiarity! I feel guilty that my life continues, and in a way I feel like I've just allowed him to be shut away and forgotten about in the nursing home. Though I do know that that is the best place for him to be, the last several nights I lay awake at night feeling like I'm grieving again -- Alzheimer's kills in stages....

Today I am thankful that I can trust the Lord with all of those I love and with all the situations that weigh heavily on my heart! I know that the power that raised Christ from the dead, healed the sick and lame is still just as powerful today and I can rest in Him, knowing that He is in control.