Friday, June 12, 2015

The Hum of Life

Suddenly, it is June.  How did that happen?  We wrapped up may with a quick trip to see Grandma and Grandpa.  Oh, it was fun :)






 Only Elsie would use the rainbow dragon puppet as as shoe. 
Therefore, when you walk and lift your foot up...the dragon mouth opens.  
Smartie pants she is... and, cute too! 


 I would bet a lot of money, that Wes did the same as a kid! 



 Back at home... the girl LOVES her cowboy boots! 
Like daughter & mama :) 

 Love these two :) 

Summer is here but in a new a different way.  I'm two weeks into a new job.  A job I love.  Wes teases me all the time about the 'tabs' in my brain.  Like an internet browser with each something you're working on and going lots of different directions.  Well, the 'new job' tab has been open for a long time.  Like, since Kaleb came home.  I liked my previous job.  I was established, had a solid system in place and I liked it.  But, it was insane for our family.  Too much driving, too many 'extra' places to be, things to do, concession stands to organize/staff/clean/manage/supply, a lot of demands for the amount of time available to actually work because you have dozens of students nearly every minute of the day.  Never, ever take for granted the amount of work that goes into teaching.  If your kids' teacher is slow to respond or things aren't completely always totally anal retentively organized... give'm a break.  They are insanely busy.

June 1st, started a new chapter.  And, I'm loving it!  My new role already makes me feel like.... a professional.  Crazy.  Bizarre I tell ya!  And, I get to eat lunch every day with my kids.  I'm done with work about the time they wake up from their nap and my commute takes about 7 seconds.  I am loving the fresh responsibilities, healthy challenges (good challenges... the kind that make you excited to conquer them not the kind where you're dreading the fallout from the parent with the perfect child kind of challenge) and professional respect to take a project and run with it.

The kids get to spend their summer at home too :)  Our rock star babysitter is an incredible blessing.   This week, they enjoyed VBS in the mornings at a local church.  Today, Kaleb had his first VBS program.  And, I got to go.  Lots of singing and dancing!


It's the simple things.  Like having your kids in the same town as you and not having to spend an hour of your life every day in the car.  To God be the Glory!!!  He seriously put this together on no account of my doing.  I can tell I had nothing to do with it- it's turned out wonderfully!

Elsie is continuing to settle in.  These past few weeks have been a little stressful for her as I'm not available all day but being home, playing with her own toys, napping in her own bed, etc. has been very helpful and we are so grateful for our Timber :)  Yesterday, we started a new phase as well... called 'kid activities'.  Kaleb started gymnastics.  Yikes, if you've seen the kid you know how perfectly gymnastics suits his style.  And, besides...what boy wouldn't love a bona-fide 'Ninja' class?? The highlight from last night was when they wanted him to put both hands on a bar then swing his legs over the bar.  The kid just did a cartwheel over the bar instead ;)  When they practiced walking along a straight line of tape, he did a cartwheel down the line instead.  Oh, boy.

So, that is where we are.  The hum of life.  And, its good.  We actually kind of almost feel... normal.

P.S.  Tonight...while riding bikes in the street and going for a walk, a young couple walked past us with this big huge beautiful yellow lab.  And, Elsie pointed at it repeatedly and said 'dog'.  It wasn't phonetically perfect but it was definitely 'dog'.  Yay!!  Other than Mama and a random Dada from time to time, this just might be her first word.  I think we need a dog.... ;)  If that doesn't earn a kid a dog, I don't know what does! 

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