notes on our day

Big sister is so proud to be cutting strawberries for little sister!  Slowly, Momma is raising helpers.

Here is my sweetie on pasta night.  The floor looks worse than her face.....three times a day.  We always pair strawberries and vanilla ice cream (Bryers with the vanillla bean specks) on pasta night.  Yummy combo.

My nature-loving son is in heaven now that spring is here.  Every ADHD child (and adult) I've known has needed nature therapy.  Very calming to them.

They've been digging for earthworms in Ohio for five years, but this size has never appeared before.  My first thought when he brought it to me, was, what kind of snake is that!!??

My Mary picks up as much earth life as her big brother.

Here we're praising the Lord and dancing to some You Tubes.  We really got the grove here!  Who needs jazzercise?  I'll eventually learn how to make my own You Tube.  You need to see first hand the energy I'm dealing with!

They painted flowers while I put Beth down for a nap.  Their painting time has been so peaceful lately.  Paul did spill some paint on the floor--they told me--but they cleaned it up without coming to get me.  How 'bout that?  My babies are growing up!

I'm not able to nurse Beth out in the living areas.  She will only concentrate on nursing when she's in a room alone with me.  It was that way with all my babies, starting around 8 months old.  If you don't expect that and try to accommodate it, your baby might wean before you both really desire it.

Beth has stopped nursing (for the most part) between the hours of 12 midnight and 5 a.m.  Consequently, I noticed signs of ovulation, including very painful nursing.  Why is it that nursing around ovulation hurts so much?

Medically speaking, midnight to five is called sleeping through the night.  Nursing within those hours does seem to delay a woman's cycle longer, so there is something to that medical definition.

I've had a long, 26-month reprieve from cycles.  All good things must come to an end, I suppose.  Maybe my migraines the past couple of days are hormone related after all.

I read this post today from A Path Made Straight.  What a snippet from my day!   Every day.  And God is working with me in much the same way regarding messes and constant interruptions.  Elise has such a way with words.  Someday I'll hopefully be able to craft equally beautiful posts about seemingly mundane motherhood tasks.  In truth, they're not mundane at all!  They slowly chisel away at our me-first natures, remaking us in his image.