The good stuff

Wanted to update, so starting with pics

I love that Siri stole my phone and captured Jane's cheesy soccer pose so well ;)

This park visit ended up in water tag and happy kids

Picked up their art at Color Me Mine and visited Grandma Carol

Jane's upstart graduation. I loved seeing how proud she was of herself

a new item for our trip to Cali and other future water fun

A surprise visit and yoga with Grandma Sandy

I loved just watching them play and enjoy the sun and water

She has a few pair of boy underwear in her drawer, and lately, that's all she picks to wear. 

We were given a tea party photo shoot from a friend, they love getting dressed up and I love pics of my kids, I can never get enough. Thank you!

this workout, took all the lazy in me and shoved it in my face

and this morning, a bike ride before it got too hot

This week has been more relaxed, less busy. But the challenge has been with my temper. I have been pretty impatient with the girls. I apologize to them waaaay more than I wish I needed to. One would think that knowing our Ruby is likely going to pass away from cancer would replace any tension. It does, but not completely. 3,5, and 7 year olds are still who they are. And I'm still a mom learning how to have a 3,5, and 7 year old. And 3 girls seem like sugar and spice, but guess what, they totally stink. Probably not as bad as boys, but they are still gross. They sure clean up well though.

Mark has been reading this book...

“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why...the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.” 
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce