School Pictures 2016

School Pictures are here! They turned out great and that is All I really have to say about it! Yay!

Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

I literally think of you everyday and how I want to write but our lives have grown so busy that it is fallen off my list of priorities.  My soul hears these whispers telling me to write more, I know it is a creative outlet that will actually help me deal with all the business so here I am today making time for it.

I promised Luke that I would get back to it, knowing that that promise would help me stay on track.  It is a calming ritual for him and I to read and talk about our memories at night.

All three of my precious kids are so weighed down by anxiety and OCD.  The heavy energy of it just sucks them all in the morning and then before I know... no one wants to go to school.  Every day is different so I am always trying to figure out the trigger... is it a lack of vitamin, the lack of sun, lack of meat or iron?  Are they just overly sensitive or is a real disorder in their brain that is harder to treat than a behavior?  Sometimes I get so caught up in fixing the problem that I forget my own advice that I always tell them.  Give it God... do the best you can and it Let It Be!  Some things are not meant to be fixed by me... this is their journey and I have given them the tools but now THEY need to use them.  I need to exercise faith and continue to pray...

So that is where I will leave you today, my dear old blog that is always here for me.  I need to celebrate my quiet time I had this morning because all 3 did successfully go to school today!  I am sitting in an outdoor church by Farmer Brown's garden at the neighborhood Methodist church.  Lucy is playing with her doggy friend, Harry.  I will visit you again tomorrow!

Pumpkin Patch 2016

The 5 of us had such great a time at the Thomas Family Farm!  This was our second year going.  My favorite part is the rock quarry where you get to mine gems from a bag of dirt you buy.  Another one of my favorite parts was watching the kids play!  I feel like they are getting so old so it was fun to watch them having fun playing in the tunnel slides, burying each other in the corn kernel pit, and squelching around in muddy pumpkin Patch!  I had quite the clean up when we got home but it was well worth the mess!  Before bed, we watched old video's from 6 years ago!  My... what a big difference 6 years is!  They are just bigger versions of themselves now and it is so cute to see how their same little souls are still shining through!