life is GOOD!

man. i am crazy behind with documenting life here. it's been a GOOD week!!!!!!!
first time i've been able to say that in about 2 months. so we are rejoicing bigtime!

trying to find the balance between moving on from where we were the past 2 months. and making sure we learn any "lessons" we need to learn for the future. we KNOW the stuff we've dealt with in lincoln lately is not gone...that it will come back up. and we want to do the best we can to help him through it next time.

and my heart? still so joyful and soft and encouraged. i'm so very thankful. and mostly just LIGHT and JOYFUL. but i have to admit that there is a scar...that i can feel the effects of the many days...weeks...of neverending weariness and being at the END of myself. i'm recovering...but it's going to be a little bit of a process i think. 

this was DAYS ago. but my precious, lifelong friend, jenn, texted me one morning. we live like 1 1/2 hours apart from each other? we like to think we live in the same town (when we were in high school, we had plans to live in the same culdesac with connecting tunnels underground :-)) but we don't. we DO see each other...but not often enough. ANYways. she texted me and said she had to come to the area where we usually meet and was wondering if there was a chance that i could meet her that morning?? i threw what i was planning on doing that morning out the window and said, "YES!" it was so fun! to be kind of spontaneous and to get an hour with her like that!! did my heart GOOD!

we each had our youngest 2 with us...

pat and i got to go out on a date last weekend! my parents watched the kids. everyone was happy!

this guy kind of drove me bonkers this week?? i can tell he's nearing the age of 3. ugh..

our week started with...SNOW! but it was the PERFECT amount. it snowed during our ENTIRE run on monday morning. but the ground was warm enough that it only stuck to the grass...so NO delay for the kids! (sorry. i'm over the snow delays. bye bye, kiddies!)

morning snack :-)

soaking up EVERY minute with this little guy in the mornings. he is just so fun to BE with. similar to his older brother. peaceful. calm. sweet. ahhh.....

i loved her outfit as she was cleaning the floor...

once a week we have salad for dinner. they get to pick their toppings. they actually like it! we've been doing it for a few months and at first they didn't, but now they do!

i made dinner for 18 people this afternoon. but it wasn't for tonight. more on that to come! :-)

THIS was dinner tonight. quesadillas in front of march madness...scarfed down before joshua's football practice. life is pretty good!

ok. good night. my bed is pretty much my favorite place in the world these days. on tuesday night, i got 8 hours of sleep. IT.WAS.AMAZING. i mean, crazy amazing. i don't know WHEN the last time was that i got 8 hours of sleep! i should do it more often...ha!