Mother's Love

I have been thinking for a while now how my blogs are really just an account of the happenings in our family...which is great, but since I never have time to scrapbook, I originally wanted to add all the scrapbook journal type things here too. In the couple years that I have done this, the real "feeling" type blogs are lacking. I want to remember how much I love my little ones and "how" I love them as they are growing. So, as I sit here with my precious little boy next to me trying to feed me pizza he has made for me and asking me to fix a necklace he has just broken so he can wear it...and now he is getting out the Hi Ho Cherry-O game to dump all over my bedroom floor =) I am going to attempt to get some coherent, loving thoughts down about my sweet children.

I often have to stop in the middle of the day to remind myself to do more than just go through the motions. As we are running from class to class, doing errands, teaching school, or other household chores I seem to forget to just have fun with the kids. I try as much as I can to stop and look at what they are doing...to admire their reactions to the world around them and to be thankful they are in my life. I have to try hard to remember that we are homeschooling so we can have fun and be together, but as any other "task" in life, you start to see it as routine and just something else you need to complete. That is probably the hardest thing about homeschooling, to remember to enjoy what you are doing, to do it for fun, not to rush through it so you can move onto something else. I have to make signs as reminders and post them around high-traffic areas in the house. =)

I get a lot of little reminders from the kids throughout the day too. It is usually when Hailey comes up to me and shows me a drawing of her riding her bike or doing something else she loves and it is adorable how excited she is about her drawing! She loves to explain all the different things she has drawn in the picture and I LOVE to see how her mind perceives things! One of my favorite things is to watch Drew while he is drawing with Hailey. He tries so hard to do the things that she does. He will draw some circles on a paper and then his eyes light up and he exclaims, "An 'O'!" I give him a huge smile and tell him what a great job! The look of accomplishment on his face is priceless!

I love my kids so much...just love them to pieces! I never knew you could love anyone as much as I love my family, and I thank God for giving me the capacity to love that much.