i just asked rex what i should post.
: )
he laughed & said he had no idea. yet he practically made me sit down here to post. i tried protesting .... saying how the kitchen was bombed.
he cleaned it. you can see the counter now.
my next excuse was i usually post in the moment .... as in my current state of mind plays into how i type.
my current state of mind was not worth typing : )
its been a week. the kind where i send him text messages that say i feel i like i'm out of control in my own house. the kind where we seriously took a day off school for parent/teacher conferences - no joke. the kind where i described the day with words like crap & i don't use that word in every day speech.
on a general i like keeping the focus of my blog on the brighter side - yes i might show you a picture every now & then of my destroyed laundry room or tell you how i can't cook. but blogging about the screaming toddler car ride home or the night we didn't get along and were ok to stay mad w/ each other i tend to leave out.
because we've got it all together & things like paying the late fee on an overdue bill never happen to us? no.
because i'm trying to look good ... to people i've never even met? no.
no. we're living life. real life. we have bad days. we have really bad days. we even have crappy days. honesty is good.
here though, that is not the focus.
on the radio they tell the behind the music to this one song, (which right now i can't even remember the name of) they talk of how when they were writing it they had all this life going on and instead of picking out something from that to write a song about they went past that & said hey we should just write a song to worship God just because He is God. because since He is God He deserves to be worshiped, regardless of how we feel, what we think, what's going on, what's good, what's not.
i like that.
i could let you now how hairy my legs are right now. how i left the mall not once but twice pushing regan in the stroller as she screamed no! all the way to the car. how rex & i have been hit upside the head this week with reminders to get it right.
that's all true. we don't pretend here. we just believe that in practicing right, in practicing love, in practicing grace, in practicing ...... we'll get better at holding fast, at worshiping God for just being God.
where was all this going? something about why there hasn't been a post in forever. or rex making me post : )
he tells very funny jokes sometimes. the bummer is they are too funny to post. he's been beautiful this week. he's been ok being beat up for things that aren't his fault.
this is where we'll switch topics
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ben was on a motor home trip to north carolina to the gun store.
fyi.
it's a beautiful line. it's full of all sorts of meaning that is worth remembering this week.
it made me smile. i need to smile more.
like this, isn't that beautiful. she's smiling with no care or thought to the fact that her hair is messed up & there is dirt all over her face. she still smiles.
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i seriously traded standing on one of these this week
for a trip here instead.
guilty - i rescheduled baby's appointment & got a pedicure instead.
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she likes being apart of school, her baby came too.
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little friends whose big sisters dressed them up so they too could look princess-y.
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i saw this out our back window & as much as i wanted a better angle, i stuck the camera through the slates of the blinds to not interrupt the moment.
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the girls & i went to a real for life tea room last week. they poured lemonade in her tea cup for her.
it really was pretty fun - i even drank real tea : )
our little baby now owns 3 things that aren't hand-me-downs. that have been bought especially for him. 2 little outfits are in that bag.
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ben's fort.
followed by ben's b r & f .....
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the kids run, molly & i ride : ) during p.e. !!!
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sharing grapes on the back porch ~
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we're going to make french toast & carve pumpkins tonight. we're also unwrapping caramels to dip apples in .... just cause it sounds fall-ish : )
the pumpkins & caramel apple part, not necessarily the french toast!!!
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