Time is Passing

The other morning these two little hands poked under the bathroom door. It made me smile. It was a sight that I realized that I rarely see anymore.  This used to be a regular occurrence, numerous times a day, with multiple different children.  It used to drive me crazy. "Can't I just have a moment?!" But this morning, last week, I found myself wishing those little fingers would stay.  My kids are getting bigger and time is slipping by and I haven't been good at recording all those little things I never want to forget.  That's what this blog started as..."I just never want to forget this..." As I look at this blog that is SO full of memories and in every way, our family journal.  I'm so sad I've gotten so lackadaisical in it.  I've had excuses off and on.  But it comes down to, it just hasn't been a priority.  I would love to go back and be as detailed to "Catch up." But I'm realizing, it's just not going to happen.  So here I am, hitting the reset button and starting where I am today and jumping back on this.  My kids have been asking for the next book in line and I haven't made it! *Gasp!"* So even though time is passing.  My kids ARE growing up.  I can still savor fingers under the bathroom door forever.

Spring Break

In April, my kids had Spring Break.  We just stuck around here, but made sure to have lots of fun.

Our gym (which is amazing, by the way) started the week off with a balloon artist...

We babysat 10 baby chicks.  Like brand new babies.  They were my neighbor's, but couldn't take care of them as babies.  So we took them until they could be outside full time.  The first of 6 weeks that we had them, was spring break.  They got LOTS of extra love with the kids being home all week.  

We made lots of trips to the ice cream store. 

We did dinner at IHOP one night with dad

And had our first movie together as a whole family in the theater.  It was so great.  We saw Zootopia.  The kids were all well behaved! 

We went to the aquarium at one point and saw one of the 3D movies.  They are super short, but still fun.  It was the first time we did that part of the aquarium. 

We finished off the week with a trip to the Thanksgiving Point Museum of Curiosity.  Mike was even able to join us, which is always a special treat. 

It was a fun schedule-less week with lots of good family time together.