today

Just another Sunday family day.  We played outside, explored the yard, built sand castles, climbed rock mountains, ate lunch outside, and sat on the bench swing.  Noah decided he would only nap while being held today, so I held him.  A lot.  I didn't clean anything, or start any projects.  Ryan and I just took care of kids.  All.  Day.  Long.  

It's a wonderful thing to do, and also exhausting and hard.  Just taking care of kids.  Especially little ones, who need help with everything and cry every time something goes wrong and want you to play with them.  I have to remind myself that even though this day seemed to last forever, it really is a short time that they are little.  Someday, we won't be the most awesome people they know.  Probably someday soon.

And now, as they are all asleep in their beds, I'm enjoying the quiet, the calm, the lack of demands.  And also remembering the sweeter moments of the day.  

Mia kissing Noah.  Laci asking if she can tape her artwork to the wall, "But not the window momma, because I know that blocks too much light."  Noah's silly smile and flailing arms when he woke up from his nap.  How I managed to get us all at the table at the same time for dinner.  And when Ryan and I stood quietly laughing around the corner while both girls cried loudly in the bathtub because they got in trouble for fighting over a purple bowl for something like the tenth time today.  

I honestly don't know where I'd be without these people.