Daily Moments

It's been a really long, exhausting week. I am so ready to be done with this moving thing.
 Mary left on Tuesday, which resulted in my usual behavior of depression eating every carb-filled-sugar-filled-fat-filled food in the house. Somehow, even though I "don't buy that stuff", things magically appear--like 12 reeses peanut butter eggs in my freezer that I had no idea were there. Twelve. That's like a dream and a nightmare all wrapped into one. We won't disclose how many I ate.

 The house hunt is getting discouraging and I'm sick of packing and cleaning the house for showings, organizing, and choosing what we might need in temporary housing for a few months and what to put in storage.
 But more than all of that, I'm mainly feeling grateful tonight. The in between moments is what I'm focusing on, the moments when I'm hugged by my kids for no reason, or I receive a crinkly-nose smile from my baby. When friends and family come over to pack, babysit and clean, (but mainly hang out and laugh for hours) because they care and want to help. When my husband cleans the kitchen after dinner because he knows I've had an exhausting day. I am so blessed to live my life surrounded by so many wonderful, amazing people. My family lives far away, but we get to spend so much more time together compared to most long distance families, and when we do it is pure Heaven on Earth. My husband's family is like my own and so supportive and helpful. I have childhood friends that I've grown up with that I consider brothers and sisters, and my Texas girls that I've known since marriage are becoming my sista's too.
 My New York and Texas family is becoming closer as the years go on, and it's this great relationship that I'm really happy to be in the middle of. I'm so blessed, you guys. I don't know how else to put it.

 So without further ado, the in between moments from this week:

 Possibly THE best moment from the week. This happened to Mary during our garage sale as a customer looked on. We screamed with laughter and could.not.stop.

Date Night

Mixed and matched ideas to come up with this roasted red pepper and cauliflower soup. Pictures from toaster strudel and peanut butter cup day not available.

Found him "reading" his Bible

Girls Night

Also, we're twins who are 10 years apart

Nothing like a sleeping child

Workout

Grandma Time

Poor kid has almost all his toys packed away and is very bored ;/

Ended this week with a rainy weekend--so needed around here!

Hope you all have a great Memorial Day! We are (surprise, surprise) packing and moving belonings into storage, but I'm looking forward to next year when we'll be in our own house and able to have friends over for a cookout!

Kindergarten Graduation

Our girl graduated from Kindergarten last week. We made it through our first year of homeschool (with flying colors, thanks to God's grace!) and I'm so thankful at the great year we had. 

"They come in knowing nothing, and they leave reading, writing, adding..."said the school Kindergarten teacher, and it is truly amazing. Even now, she's continuing to write more, sound out more words, and read more in her Bible.

The graduation started out with an adorable little play about chicken pox, which was totally cute and made us all smile and laugh. After that they quoted the books of the Bible, Bible verses and sang a song. They did a video of what Bible character they would be if they could, what they wanted to be when they grew up and who they wanted to thank. 

"I would want to be Sarah, because she had a lot of faith," Brookie said. "When I grow up I want to be a photographer just like my Mom." And then I cried, of course.

After their singing they received awards and their diploma. In 12 years I'll see this same sight except she'll be almost 18 and ready for college. I don't want to think about that right now!

Presenting the Kindergarten teachers with gifts and flowers. Even though we homeschooled, we were really blessed to work closely together with Mrs. P., and I'm really thankful that she was so gracious in allowing us to be included in field trips and especially this graduation!

After the ceremony we had a little party at Nate's parents house for Brooke and Trinity. There was food and cake and presents and lots of fun. We gave her money to buy a little digital camera (which she's been wanting for a long time) and this was her face when she opened her card. ;)

She will be 6 on Saturday. SIX. That sounds so old, but of course so does every "next age" that they aren't yet. I am so proud of the great attitude she had this year, even when it got a little tough and for how hard she worked! Happy Graduation baby girl!