everyday life

everyday life may not be so interesting to others, but for us, this is our life, these are our adventures, this is part of our story. everyday baking. with both girls on the counter, one on each side of the sink, i literally have no room left for my bowls, let alone flour or any other ingredients. sophie is a big helper and puts each cup or teaspoon of ingredients into the bowl, then helps me mix. penny watches on from her seat. everyday reading. i had this romantic idea for a reading corner, complete with pixies, enchanted flowers and ribbons. i may have forgotten that a two year old and her sister would be using it! everyday marching and sock puppets. they seem to go hand in hand, not sure why. i have this tape, yes a tape, that i had as a child, and sophie can not get enough of it. everyday, over and over and over again we listen to "happy and you know it" as sophie calls it. so it would only be fitting that in everyday life, there is a section devoted to sophie and her tape. this is her marching up and down the hallway to "i will make you fishers of men" with her sock puppets on. everyday little girl. into everything, always. i was in the bedroom with penny and could hear a package being opened, you know the noise where it is fairly quite except that one thing that probably should not be making noise! we had just finished making blueberry bran muffins and i guess there were a few blueberries left in the package...but not for long. everyday with us...we roar like lions, we pretend tea parties, we potty train and have accidents, we cry, we jump in puddles after it rains, we do laundry, we dance, we cry some more, we eat..a lot, we laugh hard, we create memories and life together.

beautiful days together

recent days have reminded me of the precious gift i have in my family. they have reminded me that not everything or everyone lasts forever. these days and events have pulled at my heart strings and have made me weep. today i spent the morning soaking the in the grace of God, through sunshine, two little girls, and a wonderful husband who reminded me again today how much he loves our little life. today i say thank you to the Lord for the gifts in my life. today i say thank you to my family for helping me create beautiful memories. today i am reminded as to how much i have. what more can i ask for than this? and yet, i am only human and will forget these things, i will get frustrated with the situations i find myself in and will have little patience for those in them with me. i will easily forget to be thankful, i will easily forget how much i have. i take a deep breath in realizing these things, and walk forward in the knowledge and truth that i am thankful today, and this is all that i have. i have this beautiful day to spend together.

hope

are you sure its march? i am not sure what happened to the last month but apparently i was not present for it. i need time to slow down just a little, i feel as though i am missing everything. i think that most of my sentences start or end with "if only i had a few more hours in the day", or "if only i had a little more time". but time has not listened to me yet...it just keeps trekking by, with a big fat smile on its face! my biggest fear is that i won't remember this life, this adventure. i am finding it hard to hold onto my little moments, and remember the ones i had yesterday. so today i take a few minutes to post some pictures in order that i will know what i did in my days, who was important to me, and what it looked like to live here.

the girls

reading together...loving together

my second cake...for dan's 30th birthday party! smurfette, i love that my mom gave me all her old cake pans!

these few are for a friend who thinks it is hilarious that my kid drinks bath tub water...from a face cloth...and then says "ummmmm"

this is my life, this is a piece of my heart, these are the little people who hold it in their hands...who sometimes hurt it, who sometimes drive it crazy...but who are beautiful in every way. i wish i could document more, record our conversations, our songs that we sing, the walks that we take...i hope i don't forget. i hope that i can remember forever that my two year old told me to "listen and obey!" i hope that i will never forget her singing "this little light of mine" as she holds up her finger and waves it around...her favorite part, saying "no" to hiding it under a bush. i hope i can always feel her hands on my face, one on either side as she pulls my head toward hers to kiss my check. i hope the smile that takes up pennys whole face will always make my heart melt a little. i hope that my days, as hard as they can get, will always be full of these beautiful children. i hope that i can spend every one of those days with scott, that we can watch these girls grow, that they will be strong in their faith for the Lord, that they will love each other well and find joy in their lives. i hope...