Fall

I feel like I live at my children's school.  I am glad, because I get to spend time with them and they love it, but my house is suffering.  I have joked that if we moved our beds there it would save us one more trip.  I know this is a season in life, and it too shall pass. 

There are many things I love to do that don't fit into this schedule well.  Cooking has become minimal, and simple.  Reading is brief and interrupted.  My "study" time is gone, as well as time to sit and write anything intelligent.  Hospitality has become meeting people at the park.  I miss these things, and feel guilty for letting them slide, but I just can't do everything.  It makes homeschooling look appealing, but I know that the time would still be filled, I would just be here instead of there.  When I look at pictures I realize how quickly my children are growing up.  Mads is starting to plan for college, that makes me choke just a little bit.  I wish things could slow down, so that I could enjoy watching my children grow into adults.  In a blink they will be gone, and all I will have to show for it is this choppy blog and some pictures that I won't be able to remember when I took.

I am grateful that God grants me each day.  We manage to keep everyone fed and in cleanish clothes.  We make most of our appointments, and finish most of our assignments.  I will be glad when winter comes and we can hunker down together for a few months.  I can't believe I said that, and I will have to remind myself in February that it is a blessing to be stuck at home sometimes.  For now I will enjoy this beautiful fall warmth.  I will live on a little less sleep and help everyone memorize their speech meet pieces.  We are in the final stretch of cross country and the girls are finishing strong.  We are working more music into our lives, and listening to K-man actually playing a song on the guitar is wonderful.  Nectarine and Jalapeno sing throughout the day, and they can actually carry a tune.  Bronster even admitted to liking music class, so much so that she is going to stick it out.  Jubilee had to give up music to work on reading, some things are just more important right now.

My writing is going to be more jumbled and less thoughtful, but that is just where I am right now.  I want to keep track of what we are doing, what we are thinking might come through, but it might not.  Actually most of the time I am thinking about what I need to be doing next and what in the world I am going to feed everyone for dinner.  Time to go "finish" the laundry.