After school is always the craziest time in our home.
It started before the big kids even came home. Rudger and his best buddy were playing upstairs while I was finishing a cleanup project downstairs. (I was finally putting Christmas decorations into their bins...I know...shameful) Right before I came upstairs those two little ones decided it would be a good day to take a container of Nutella and spread it all over the couch, seriously the entire couch. I almost cried, but I didn't. We had a talk and got to washing all the cushion covers.
Real life.
Then it hit me in the early evening. I had dinner started. I was talking Levi through some of his homework. Adeline was tired of laying on the floor so I went to pick her up to try and soothe her. Rudger really wanted to try mom's rollerblades around the house but he just kept falling down and crying. So, while holding Adeline, I held Rudger's hand and we glided around the kitchen table while talking to Levi. Then the song 'Remember When' came on Pandora:
"Remember When the sound of little feet
Was the music we danced to week to week"
This is it. These moments, whether happy or sad or crazy, are our life right now. The life I chose! I know I will long for these days when they are just a memory. Yes, maybe even moments of Nutella being spread across the entire couch.
