Our story

Sometimes life doesn't lend itself to neat and tidy blog posts. Things happen everyday that I want to remember though, that I don't want to let escape through the cracks of my memory and so I think I'll smoosh a bunch of them together and write them here.

These days are full of things like...

Amelia and Sam waking me up Tuesday morning after Joel had bathed them. They climbed onto the bed in their diapers, with combed, wet hair and smelling like Honey and Milk lotion. I just wanted to eat them up.

Joel and Sammy going up and down the escalators at the neighborhood big box book store. Meanwhile, I was watching Amelia sitting in a big chair pouring over a little National Geographic kids magazine. She looked so little in that chair and yet the moment pulled me into the future, her furrowed brow pouring some important research topic or such. Sniff,sniff.

Joel and I working on baby shower invites for Shanyn, cutting and glueing and addressing. I love when we do projects together, and what could be better than doing something to prepare for the arrival of our precious nephew!

Me feeling overwhelmed that homemaking will always be a challenge...it just doesn't come naturally and yet it is something I so desire to be competent in, and so I continue to hope for growth and motivation. If I were on the MTV show MADE, I would want to be made into a confident, joyful homemaker:) Did I just write that?

More and more make believe. They have a basket of horses and cows and chickens, a lion, hippo, duck, and bird and have started playing with them a lot. They make them all eat and kiss each other and hop and swim. It's really the cutest thing ever. Amelia is especially fond of hippos these days and usually has a little wooden one that Joel brought home from Africa clutched in her hand during much of the day:)

I guess that's all for now, though I feel like there is so much more. Oh, have I told you that we are journeying to Texas in a couple of weeks? Oh yes, we are. More on that later.

All for tonight,
Jen