A little Look.

 I used to keep up a blog when the big kids of this house were small and I remembering having such joy just sharing our little everyday things. I wrote it because I wanted to keep a record of life and thoughts, I lost the joy in blogging so I seek to regain it.  I know bearing your soul on the net is not for everyone but I like it :) So here I go trying to recall the events of the last month

 A few weeks ago we went to some events in the Arts district that occur only once a month.  It was loads of fun.  We were with some of our favorite friends and we did crafts, had a beer tasting, viewed works of art, ate at the base of the skyscrapers in downtown, and attended a concert- all for free.

We bought a membership to the D-town zoo.  We have gone twice in the last few weeks. One day we spent from 10am to 5pm there. We brought a lunch and played in the water they have in the children's area.

We rode the monorail and saw so many things that our heads were spinning and all the tired little ones on the way home couldn't stop talking about the rhino who rolled in the mud and the bird who was eating another bird! They got to pet an opossum (which is vastly different from a possum) and feed a giraffe and have birds land all over them.  We can't wait to go back!

This week has been a bust as far a home-school goes... Monday we were suppose to go to an apple orchard with a group of friends but Noah woke in the night with a fever and I woke the next day with a terrible tooth ache.  This tooth has been a thorn for me for over a year.... It's a long story but I am waiting again for a root canal because of complications.  Tuesday I went to the dentist in the morning and was in excruciating pain for the remainder of the day. I laid down while my poor little ones kept them selves busy and eventually I put on a movie. Wednesday the morning was spent again at the dentist, this time for the children, then the afternoon spent driving way out to piano lessons then baseball practice.  So, today I set myself up to fail, I was in 'crazy catch up mode' and I have been a grouch.  I finally decided after tears on my part... that we would start this week's work next week.

Tomorrow we head out to Grand-dad and Grandma Vaughan's farm.  It has been in the family for 100 years and we are going to have a celebration.  We are packing our sleeping bags and some guns that need to be shot :) and driving out to nowhere Texas to sleep on a screened in porch and eat home cookin' with lots of fine folks.  I am delighted to have my husband all to my self in the car while the children watch a little movie and I can just listen to what ever he has to say.  I look so forward to getting out there a little early and having my sweet family all to myself with no pressure to 'do school' or find somewhere fun to go or to entertain a visitor. I hope very much that it works out like I hope.  But I will take what I get and have joy about God's will.

These are special days... all of the children are small enough to enjoy the same show on TV or same board game.  They all like to sing in the car and take walks as a family.  They all run to the door cheering when Daddy gets home.  I hope it stays this way for a while.

This weather has been nice, it gives way to reflection when there is such a mild evening and I am grateful. So...Another Thursday come and now dwindling away, I hope I spent it well. Life is so short.