:: I wish Corbin was in this picture ::
At the beginning of 2018 I sort of made a goal that I would be better at documenting our family life here. And here we are, almost at the end of February, and not one post. I think I'm making it more difficult than it needs to be. :) Time to change that and get these stories, pictures, and moments on this page because my memory is horrible and I don't want to forget these happy (and hard) times. Right now feels like the ideal time in our little family. I wish I could pause time for a while and just soak it up even more, but I've said that before. So I'm hopeful that I'll say it again in the future.
The last couple of weeks has been, if I could sum it up in one word, ROUGH. Two weeks ago Corbin came home with a headache and then hardly left the couch for nearly a week. In his fourteen years, I have never seen him so sick. It's been a week since he has started to feel better, and he is still EXHAUSTED. Yesterday he came home from school and slept the rest of the afternoon, woke up to eat a couple of bites, and then went back to bed for the night. We're not sure if he's still recovering or going through a serious growth spurt :)
During that time, Rudger missed almost a week of school (he even missed Valentines day) :( Taylor missed a few days, Adeline was a little under the weather and Justin and I kept feeling like we had something but it never knocked us down. Last Friday I was talking to Levi's teacher and she asked how we were all feeling. She said Levi came to school and told her "I do NOT want to go home, everyone in my family is sick and I don't want it!" Then he told her he was just going to avoid the couch because that's where all the sick people are sleeping. So far it's worked out for him :) (and he really did come home)
During that time, Adeline threw my phone in the bathtub and I was terrified that I had lost all 3,475 pictures and 100 + videos that were on there (that I am silly enough to not have backed up). Although we did figure out that Taylor's tablet has all my pictures from my phone on there. Something to do with the cloud and that his tablet is under my account??? I really don't get technology. But thank goodness.
Luckily, after a couple of days in rice, my phone was perfectly fine. I offered a lot of gratitude prayers and then spent a couple of days trying to get pictures off my phone and then organized all our photos from 2012. (I was on a roll) During that time, I don't know how on earth I did it, but I lost almost all the videos from 2016. I. was. devastated. I tried EVERYTHING to find them, but had no success. I cried over the fact that those were videos of Adeline as a 3-11 month old (some of my very favorite stages) After many tears, I just came to terms with the fact that they were gone and I would cherish the few videos we do have. (There are a couple on Instagram and we do have the videos from her first birthday and everything after that)
Life moves on and I realized we are so lucky to live in a time where we CAN record so many happy moments. And as bad as my memory is, I won't forget that precious year with Adeline. They are some of my happiest memories. (And we still have hundreds and hundreds of pictures) :)
So the past couple of weeks has been rough, but there have been so many good moments too. The cuddles on the couch, smiling while looking through thousands of pictures, evenings at home watching the Olympics together. I'll take them all.
