There are so many days, as a mother, that I am exhausted. Not just plain tired - any mothers reading this will know what I am talking about. The days where you can't manage to pick up one more pair of dirty pants, wipe another nose, tell one more child to "STOP fighting/yelling/screaming/hitting/annoying each other...." I could go on and on with that one! You can't manage to keep up with the laundry, dishes, meals, and when that's all done - you see the floors that you know you swept at least twice already, dirty again. You collapse on the couch by the end of the day, and you know that whatever you haven't finished - just isn't going to get finished. And you wonder where your time went....
THEN - you have those days. Where you wish God would just, as he did for Joshua, freeze time for a moment - an hour - a few hours. My two oldest children took off with my husband for Hoss' baseball practice this evening, so I took the time to get the younger three outside. We took out the bikes (for everyone except Buddy Boy, who - at 3 - can't figure out how to control his direction on his bike, and inevitably runs in to every section of curb possible in a 10 feet radius!) and went on a walk. Miss Priss and Bug are 19 months apart, and because Miss Priss is my tiny one, they are the same size, and could be twins. It's so fun to watch them together, and know that the relationship there is truly something special. We went on a looooooong bike ride/walk - well, long for kids, and there were moments where some of them were tired of walking, needed a break, we had to stop countless times for cars or for Buddy Boy to pick up a certain stick or rock. Somewhere in the middle of all this, though, I took a mental step outside of the box. I looked at the weed flowers that they had so lovingly stopped the procession to pick for me (how I love being the first recipient of those flowers!!!!), watched the two girls riding side by side, hair flying in the wind - looked down at Buddy's little growing legs keeping step beside me - and had this one thought....
I want this to stay in my mind FOREVER.
I don't EVER want to lose this.....
