This week went by so fast! I had a lot going on and I am so grateful for Eric who played with, bathed, read to, and tucked in the kids 3 nights this week so I could go to a dinner, activity, and hang out with some awesome friends to help out another friend clean and move into a beautiful (dirty) home .5 miles away from where she is now. I can't believe how some people leave their homes when they move. Anyways, it's amazing how fun cleaning can be when your laughing and talking with friends. I wish I could clean with them at my house everyday. We definitely got side tracked a lot due to lot's talking and laughing, but we worked till midnight and got the big things done. Eric let me sleep in till I couldn't sleep anymore this morning. Wow! I haven't done that in a long time. I must say it felt pretty good. Thanks sweetie! Man did I ever score big marrying you:) I appreciate you so much. Love you.....YST!!!
Tonight we got to relax and enjoy each other. I loved watching the kids tonight. We were all in the front room, Brynnley was shouting ready, set, go....and running across the room, the kids were dancing which turned into karate, which turned into playing with their vampire teeth and ended in turning into mom and dad while playing house. I love soaking in these simple memories and hope just reading the blog will bring them all back someday. They play so cute and adore each other. When they are teenagers and are having those lovely moments I hear teenagers have(I can't relate because I never had them...wink...wink) I can always take myself back today.
I picked up my co op share this week at Kelli's house(there are 8 of us in the co op share....that I LOVE). We had never met before but ended up talking for 3.5 hours. When I got to her house she hadn't divided up the food yet for the shares so I helped her do that and after we were done, she asked me to come inside and talk as we did so we were both enjoying our conversation and it was a lot of fun. She has a baby and the others are older so we talked a lot about raising kids in these days. I really like talking to other moms to get their opinions and advice on certain situations that all kids face when they get older. I embrace these innocent years that I am going through now with my children, but am very aware of what kids are facing. As parents I feel like we have to be on top of these things and making sure we are constantly teaching our children according to their age. We do this a lot during FHE and it has been great. More than anything we want the kids to talk to us and ask us questions young so that it is a natural thing when they are older. I hope we can always have open communication and trust. I love how my parents freely gave us their trust. I knew they trusted in me and didn't want to break that. Kelli and I talked about a lot of things and she had a great perspective on things and gave me some good advice on ways she has taught her older children. We all have so much to learn from each other.
I had to laugh after I left her house. Brynnley looked like she had been working on a farm. She loves being outside so much and while we were sorting the fruits and veggies, Brynnley was splashing in the water her empty flower pots, kneeling in mud, and trying to chase the dog. At one point she was tying to take her shoes and socks off so she could run bare foot in the grass. She is so adventurous. If I don't lock the doors she will open them and head out. People love the child safety nobs on all the doors. I have found they are pretty adult proof too. Who needs an alarm system when you could put child safety nobs on all the door outside.
Oh and I had a lucky day this week and found $50 bucks in a jacket I haven't worn since last fall. Wahoo!! I love that! Double score!
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