Consider the lillies of the fields....or the hydrangeas.....and how the Lord pays attention to them and how much more He cares for us......Grace is here and Precious is following her around like a groupie to a rock star....Grace is trying to fight thru jet lag and get acclimated to this busy house.....and I just know that its gonna be ok. We have a few more busy days of extra kids before school starts and things calm down at Kredit Lodge. Hang in there Grace....and mama.....only about a week left of summer and we can switch to the school/structured/less lazy/less indulgent/less impulsive way of life....summer is lovely, but structure is also awesome. No more ipads at the table. No more sleeping til noon. No more late nights......and....
Claire, my dining room table, church
Today Claire came home from work and we sat at the table for awhile. Oh boy, if my dining room table could talk......there are more memories soaked into this table that I can recount, and more tears and bursts of laughter than I can ever remember. There are more lists and memos and plans etched into it that I could ever save...... She is making her lists for moving to college. It's true that she is only moving a couple hundred feet away to the college in our town, but she is still moving out. She is taking all of the things she uses every day and she is setting up a life in a dorm on a college campus with a new roommate and a whole new world. In 4 days we will move her out. It is so weird. It is the weirdest thing ever. Adding children to our home is not weird at all. Figuring out how to send them out is. I'm less sad and more....conflicted, maybe. I am so excited for her. Moving to college is probab...
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