ilove these moments

This has been a great week of letting the car sit in the garage, catching up on the laundry and letting the kids play with friends after school...summer is starting to set in!  It's starting to slow down just a bit and I love it!  One more tennis lesson, less trips to the allergy doctor since Alex's shots are back on maintenance, starting a new summer Bible Study {Romans} and hopefully more lazy days to swim {if the sun ever decides to show up again!}

Yesterday I soaked it in...

Alex finished his Lego kit that Dan brought back from Chicago and was so excited to show me...he just layed on the floor and drove it around so happy and proud from his hard work...

This is what I was able to do while I enjoyed his company...

I actually watched an entire, uninterrupted episode of Oprah!  {It was with Ralph Lauren, what a neat family!}  And I got to snuggle with Elizabeth {and Whiskers & Snowball}...

...it doesn't get much better than this!  And I'm not embarrassed to show myself with uncombed hair and no make-up {well...maybe a little} when it shows that this is my life today...in the moment...soaking up the little things that might get lost during those frenzied going here and there and everywhere times!  Although I love watching the kids grow in all their activities and am happy they have friends to celebrate birthday parties with every weekend...I'm truly a homebody and I like staying home and having no agenda!

And I love when we can all be home to eat at a decent time and talk about how our day was!

It's not always calm and quiet when we're home...don't think it doesn't get a little ugly when I start feeling the house and chores falling apart and toothpaste on the ceiling and chips in the couch and pet hair collecting on the furniture...sigh...

But I'm just here to tell you that these little moments outweigh the hairy ones {pun intended!} far more and makes it all worth it!

And that's what i want to remember!

{ilove this video because elizabeth was talking to herself and studying herself so intently...she could see herself as i was recording it...and each time i play it back, she screeches and jabbers back to herself!  ilove this stage!}

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."

-Mary Jean Iron

{I saw this quote from here after I posted this and thought it was just perfect!}

{these moments captured by my ipod}