Extra in The Ordinary

When it's been a while since the last post, you know we've been super busy. Work has been full of wonderful opportunities to go early and stay late, and limited time to write. I always regret not taking enough time to write, but at the moment resting seems smarter than burning the candle at both ends, so I'm glad for that. After 12 weeks of unexpected additional responsibility at work, I feel like I came through it stronger, and even more healthy, rather than getting sick. Ok, enough about me! Back to family stuff! During the past few weeks, we: Watched our lil Punkin graduation Pre-K, and she did a great job!! We celebrated lil' cousin Tighty's 3rd birthday. Or you can call him "Batman": We celebrated IPK's 8th Birthday in Dallas with brother G and sister S: Here's go karts with brother G and sister S. We love them so! Here is Punkin' in her very first solo go-kart ride: Oh, and we went to a few day...

From one mom to another, let's just say I can meet you right where you are today. You have a million things to do, several little shoulders to hug and mouths to feed (ones much bigger than the others), and far too few hours to get it all done, and very little (or zero) time to refresh yourself mentally, physically, or spiritually. "Me time" is rare for moms, and that's ok. If it were up to us, and we had a bottomless pit of energy, we'd probably never stop to take car of ourselves. God gave us that instinct to care of our families first. Our precious kids need so much of our attention while we are with them. I remember needing lots of attention when I was a kid, too. There's just only so much one brain and one body can take, right? Some days I feel like this: (yes, even in my frustrated moments I'm probably thinking about coffee) Of course, when we get to this point of frustration, we have a choice. We can spiral down the negative nancy, the sky is...