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This is for the 4 of you who continue to check back and see if I have written anything new lately…only to find that the answer is no, and has been since mid June! I don’t know what happened. I guess, like my kids, I was on summer vacation. From my job…of blogging!?!? It’s funny, this blogging. There are no rules. I don’t get paid to write these things. I’m not punching a time clock. There are no deadlines. Yet sometimes I get this nagging feeling while I am living my Moments and Things…this feeling that I should be blogging about this, that or the other. What is that? Instead of thinking of it as some responsibility or a chore, I take it as a sign that I enjoy writing and I enjoy my family and this is a treat for me. I get a break from my mommying moments to sit at the computer and share the stories about my mommying moments! Really, that is why I decided to blog. I wanted to preserve the little moments of this season of life. I want some place to look back and find all the sweet and precious (and obnoxious) pieces of my kid’s early years. It is nice to know that sometimes I practice what I preach! I say I am the kind of mommy who wants to be with my family, raise my kids, have that quality time with them while they are little, build a strong foundation for a lifelong relationship with my children…and so on. Like many other stay at home mommy’s I often find myself frusterated with the kids or overwhelmed by all that “needs” to be done or complaining about the ridiculous behavior of one of my kids. This summer I discovered that I was just enjoying my three children being home with me. Rather than entertaining them with the television while I blogged about what we should be doing with our precious time together, we SPENT time together! The Dave Ramsey financial fast continued to rule over our family activities. There wasn’t anything super exciting or monumental that happened around here…but we enjoyed each other. Simple as that. I’ll try to sit down at our desktop (where all the pictures are stored) and load a few of my very favorite summer moments.

That was then, and this is now…

The reality is that it is now September 18th. The sun is different in the sky. The air is getting crisp. The leaves are starting to change colors. The kids are back into a school routine. Fall is here!!! We LOVE Fall in this family. I love that the sun is still making regular appearances, but the temperatures are cooler. I love the colors. I love the smells. I love the clothes. I love the food. I love being cozy. I love the holidays. I the traditions. I pretty much love it all!

With this change of seasons, life in our home continues to shift and change. Back at the beginning of the year, when the economy really crapped out and we started feeling the cruch on the homefront, there was lots of scrambling, praying, brainstorming, adjusting, discussing, compromising and even crying. Through all of this Bryce and I agreed to fight to stay in our house and for me to stay home with the kids…everything else was fair game. We made lots and lots of little changes that helped us get through most of the year…but the big change came in mid August when I started doing childcare for two small boys. We are finally in a place where I feel like we will make some forward progress. It has been quite an adjustment for me (and the kids too) but I feel like we are settling into a routine now. I am SO proud of the way my kids are welcoming the little boys, 5 months and 15 months, into their lives. They have been a huge help, and I don’t know if I could do it without them sometimes. I am more organized than I have been in a long time, and our day to day routine has much more structure than ever before! With all the naps happening each day I don’t get out of the house much anymore. My errands are fewer and concentrated to one or two evenings a week. Lexi and Isaac are both loving school. It is so nice to see their excitement for learning and watch them make new friends. Isaac is playing soccer at the park down the street, which is really convenient! Bryce is coaching his team this year and having a great time. Other than that…it’s the simple life for us here in Happy Valley! The little things make me smile these days. I hope to fit in some time with the keyboard each week to share my Moments and Things.

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