That's been our lives for the past few months.
Regular craziness of life with five kids and two dogs plus pregnancy plus end of the school year activities plus home renovations plus three sets of house guests equals serious exhaustion.
Better than last year when we had a series of unfortunate events, this year has been filled with positive things, albeit too many all at once. But we can't really complain about...
three dancing daughters
sweet preschoolers (including a preschool graduate!)
clapping out our fifth grader so she could move on to Junior High (okay, I may be complaining a little about this one...how did I get old enough to have a child in Junior High?!?)
a Girl Scout bridging ceremony
darling baseball players (who are also doing swim team this year)
a beautiful newly renovated basement (this only shows a portion of the goodness)
new paint and carpet in the family room
a shoe and coat closet in a spot formerly occupied by dead space
meals and fun with cousins visiting from St. Louis and Evanston
a surprise sixteenth birthday party for a visiting niece
grandparents who came all the way from California
superfun cousins from Phoenix
an amazing summer beginning band concert with our very own flautist
and the opportunity to live by my brother these past two years while he's been getting his MBA (though we can complain that he just moved away).
And now I stand at the threshold of six weeks of mostly unscheduled summer and I can hardly decide how to best enjoy it. It's been so long since I had control over my time that I'm not really sure how to handle it, but hey, blogging some semblance of an update on our family so I can remember some of these blessed events seems like a good start.
