Messes and Blessings

 This week has gone well, seeing that it is our first week of school...sometimes I find myself wondering though just how other Mom's do it all! It seems like I take one step forward and two steps back some days. Between spilled milk, food on the floor, laundry, dishes, pencil shavings, spilled bubbles, and let's not forget dirty diapers and messy hands and faces I feel like all I ever do is clean!!!! How am I supposed to ever get ahead?? I have been trying not to get overwhelmed, but remembering that if God has called me to do this then He will provide ALL I need to accomplish each day. Our days may not look like I want, and that is a hard thing for me to learn! This is just a season of life with two little guys and I have to just remember that and not expect things to be clean all the time!

   I started my day off with a good morning jog! It was very refreshing and HOT! I decided that I was done paying a gymn to be tortured...I could save money and just torture myself! :) I am going to try to run just 20 minutes a day...hopefully I can be consistant.

 I took Mireya and Silas out this morning to run a few errands and do a librairy trip. Wednesdays are going to be our new librairy day...we all love books so much and I want us all to READ, READ, READ!!

 School went well in between all the messes.....I caught Jude walking around the house with a spray bottle and when I asked him what he was doing, he replied "just getting all the flies" I wondered what flies he was talking about as I watched all the water dripping down my cabinets and onto the floor. The kitchen floor is another story..no matter how often I sweep there are always little "things" sticking to my feet and Cade thinks it's great because every day on the kitchen floor is snack time! Gross!!! I am always pulling stuff out of his mouth!

 Summer time in Phoenix can get frustrating when the kids are tired of being in the house. Mireya just told me the other day that she wanted to move to Antarctica! Haha! I know how she feels! With little boys there is always so much energy to burn off...after lots of jumping jacks and running down the hallways I decided to send the children outside for a few minutes to get some fresh air. I sat down at the computer thinking maybe I could figure out my blog header, which I did! Yay! Pretty soon Silas came running in holding a VERY muddy something. "Look Mom!!! I found a fossil!" He was so cute and so excited! I tried to act excited but wasn't too happy about the pieces of mud falling onto my floor. I think it was an old liscence plate he found in our backyard. Boys are so messy, but Oh so much fun! Later on I went in the bathroom and found some more mud from the little" fossil experience" that was all over the toilet, sink and pretty much everywhere! Jude grabs some toilet paper, wets it and starts "cleaning it up for me" :)

 I have to blog these things, because I know that one day I will look back and laugh. Life is full of messes and I am so blessed and thankful that my house is not perfect; because if it was than there would be no children, and YES children are a blessing and SO worth it! Well, I have rambled and I really need to go to bed. I have been so bad about staying up late and then being exhausted before my day even starts. Tomorrow is a new day holding new messes and blessings! ;)