These Days

The days are truly flying by.  I often see the kids doing something and think, “I don’t want to forget this” so I grab my camera or phone and snap a picture.  I find joy in picture taking.  I find joy in capturing one specific moment.  I wish I was better about video.  I’m actually awful at remembering to take videos now that everyone is getting older.  I need to work on that, but hey, you do what you can do.  I want to remember these days.  Change is coming for our family…I can feel it…I can see it and I want to remember us as we are.  I was looking through some of my recent pictures and these jumped out at me as favorites.

Lazy Sunday football and a new Chima Lego game on the iPad which has rocked Solomon & Hudson’s world.

Two boys playing baseball and one girl playing soccer makes for a crazy schedule the majority of the time.  It’s a bit stressful sometimes and then I look at this picture and I see why we love it.  Sweet Gunner loving on Coach Grant as he gives his “good game boys” chat, Trevis representing with his Full Count hat, all those little boys listening and enjoying their after game snack, parents seeing kind coaches, Amon watching on and the comfort of friendship no matter how you played.  Makes me smile.

Gratefulness for my small business and the gift it is to love what I do.  So crazy thankful.

Another picture from the Ngungwane carepoint.  Could I be any more in love with those sweet faces and bright red chairs?!?!?  I was suppose to be back in Swaziland on my birthday again this year, but I couldn’t get the trip minimum I needed for people to make it happen.  Honestly I’ve kind of grieved the trip falling through.  Things just don’t always work out like we think they should.  God is still teaching me to plan in pencil, not Sharpie…a little Shauna Niequist for you today.

This girl.  She gets me.  I get her.  Enough said.

I’m still living in last weekend.  I really like Josh Kelley.

Josh Kelley Fun Fact:  He can walk on his hands.  It’s one of the quirky things which one me over at age 15.

He still random sleeps every once and a while and you better believe I’m going to take a picture of it when he does.  I don’t want to forget this.  It has been one of the funniest/cutest things about Amon.  He’s such a funny and different kind of kid.

These two are climbing fools.  Can’t stop, won’t stop.  We’re going to take them to the climbing gym soon.  It needs to happen.  Every door frame in our house is covered with grimy little boy germs now.  Hello American Ninja Warrior.  Sign them up.

And my people.  The love is pretty dang intense.  We get each other.  We laugh at each other’s jokes and fight hard and act crazy and call each other out on our junk and tell each other Jesus loves us more than anything else in the world and we forgive…a lot.  It’s what family does.  And I could not be more grateful for these 5.

Let me tuck these days away as reminders when the waters aren’t smooth and storms come in hard and knock us flat out.  So thankful for God’s constant and steadfast goodness and mercy and love and grace.

Happy Wednesday!