On Golden Pond

This job wears me out some days. We're in the trenches together moms! There are days I feel like a lousy parent. I feed my kids kraft mac-n-cheese more often than Id like to admit. Sometimes PMS or a bad hair day makes me want to crawl back under the covers. I loose my patience, loose creativity and loose my mind often in this role as mom. There are dust-bunnies procreating on every horizontal surface in my house and as of today, there are unsightly patches on my kitchen wood floor where Ive scrubbed off the polyurethane finish in an attempt to remove the contents of spilled bottle of hot pink nail polish.

But God always graciously gives those "moments" when we need them most. Those golden reminders that these days are fleeting. Someday I wont have to go in the bathroom and lock the door and turn on the fan just to get 30 seconds of peace and quiet to myself. But someday I will ache for the clamor and chatter and chaos that fills every corner of our home and moment of our lives!

I threw in the towel with school at lunch time today.....best decision all week! We headed out to the lake for the afternoon and had a marvelous time. We played together and laughed and splashed. Years from now, they wouldnt have remembered what we were going to cover in our history lesson this afternoon.....but I will still remember the halo of sunlight around my blondies.

And their giggles echoing across the lake.

And the afternoon breeze with lil' bit shivering, wrapped in a towel in my arms.

I love these precious moments.

Im scared to blink...they'll be over too soon!