Life

My apologies if this post is disjointed and hard to follow- that's basically the summation of life at the moment! I feel like James the Juggler from a library show this summer that was juggling a bowling ball, a golf club and a baseball bat all the the same time! I guess in my case it would be a large saucepan, a few eggs, a potty seat, a few sponges and a box full of loose crayons! Here are a few things I've been up to, in no particular order...
-Staining (halfway) the playground set
-Painting various skateboards, scooters and cork boards (just for fun)
-Cleaning the house (and then again and again and again...)
-Homeschooling- 3 kids this year, while the twins are NOT napping
-Baking again
-Not doing dishes nearly as often as they need doing
-Making freezer pickles
-Drinking lots of coffee
-Listening to various sermons/lectures (the 2006 Desiring God Conference on post-modernism, Tim Keller on Proverbs, John Frame on Libertarianism- not the political Libertarians...; RC Sproul's The Holiness of God, etc.-I'm trying not to let my brain turn into mush!)
-Feeding people
-Avoiding the sad tomato garden
-Still putting dratted escaped chickens back in their yard
-Trying not to curse while attempting to pull legos that have been lodged in the wand/handle of my vacuum- a certain little boy decided they would make great "bullets" for his "gun"
-Reading "Loving the Little Years" and crying because some days it's just so hard and I've failed so much
-Laughing at my husband as he tells me that someday I'll write a book called "Loving the Empty Nest Years"
-Reading and listening to God's Word and godly people as they remind me that God's not finished with me yet and that I'm in the exact place He wants me
-Taking little people potty (diapers really were so convenient)
-Trying to figure out how to type with two crabby girls on my lap and wondering how to keep them from biting each other
-Kissing owies (which have increased greatly in the last few days as Peter has taken up skateboarding and Elijah has renewed his bike riding without training wheels)
-Getting up in the middle of the night to deal with people  (at 4am this morning Elijah was very distressed that his pillow was cold)
-Drinking more coffee
-Spending too much time escaping on the computer
-Telling myself every time the kids make a big mess somewhere "Well, at least I didn't clean that already like I was going to today!"
Ok, that's enough for now- life must go on! :) Have a good one wherever you are, remembering Who has put you there!