Blessed...

Today I am a bit overwhelmed as I consider my blessings.

I am sitting here, after reading my Bible, in peace and quiet. All the kids are sleeping, the air conditioning is on high, all the lights are off this early afternoon, and I am rested.

Last night, both girls kept me up for a while with their coughing. M has a pretty nasty ear infection and H has some bug. I rotated back and forth between girls and at 3:33 am had to awaken S and send him to the kitchen for Motrin. Both girls woke up excited and full of life,this morning, PTL. Even though I woke up tired, I was literally awakened by at least a dozen M kisses... so sweet!

H went off to school today laughing and shouting "I go bus".

S called me at 10:30 to inform me of his intention to come home for lunch.

S came home and took the other 3 kiddos on a date for lunch. He gave me strict instructions... REST. So, I napped for 1 whole, uninterrupted hour. When he came back and dropped the kids off, M said, "bye bye Mommy, I go with daddy." Can you stand it???? Oh, and S also brought me a venti iced americano from Starbucks! A very attractive thing to do... he speaks my love language!

When H came home from school she looked at me and said, "yay, Mommy, I uv U." I asked her about her day and she said, "I go school, I play, I draw and I nuggle." I asked her who she snuggles and she said, "daddy".

I laid down with both girls for a nap (and got another 30 minutes of rest in). They "nuggled" with me and kissed each other for about 15 minutes before falling asleep. They had their eyes closed almost the entire time they were kissing. They went back and forth saying, "I love you" to each other and to me. What an amazing thing parenthood is.

My parents are purchasing a motorhome... and guess who gets to live in it for the next 10 months???? It is so far and above everything we hoped and prayed for. You think my parents are a little supportive??? Just a bit. My husband will be jobless in the near future, with 4 kids. We are moving overseas to a developing nation and my parents are enabling this. Pretty awesome, huh?

I cannot express my amazement at my family... my entire family, not just my parents. Do you know what my brothers and their wives said to me when I told them we were adopting 2 boys, and then again when I told them we were adopting H??? They said, "that's awesome," both times. Do you know that my parents get choked up when they see H working so diligently to succeed, and when M sings the "I Love You" song, and when they read what C says and when JR takes care of his sisters? I am so blessed to have the most amazing family. My dad dared my husband and I to make another child as cute as M... or take another child as amazing as the our new 3! Not once have my parents said they think we are out of our minds. (That, of course, may very well be b/c they have known I was out of my mind since day 1, so this is just par for the course).

Last night S set up a ginormous "hurdle" for C to jump over. He showed him videos of Olympic hurdling and he showed C how to hurdle. Then he assisted the rest of the kids hurdling over M's bike with a 3 foot handle, and a stool. Yes, our house became a track for a while, and it was a blast. S is going to start taking C running. He is such an amazing dad... the thrives on being a father.

Anyway, enough rambling and back to laundry. Just wanted to publicly thank my God, my Lord and Savior, for these undeserved blessings... and thank my family for their unselfish, beyond loyal, support... and thank my husband for rocking my world!!!

Now I will overwhelm you w/ pics of my blessings!

H is such a lover of life... even in a carseat!

M and her big bro.

S enabling H to race too!

C in a tree!

C's favorite place to be!

M w/ a medicine ball!

Happy C... as usual!

JR and M racing!

My Kiddos!!!!

The Fam!

H watching the goings on!

JR and the medicine ball