La,la,la,la life goes on

Life just keeps on rollin' over here. I teach sunday school to first graders and a lesson I taught them recently was based on a story of when God stopped the sun for Joshua. His crew was out numbered and they needed to conquer a battle that would take all day. So, God stopped the sun and lengthened the day in order to make it occur. That story has stayed with me longer than most stories I teach. What I wouldn't give to have God slow my days down and add more hours to the day! My boys can make me crazy, but they are growing up WAY too fast. Kindergarten is on the horizon and life is moving too fast for me. I get frustrated with the," doings," of life that get in the way of my time with Jon and the boys. I have to clean, cook, run errands and sleep... but I wish I could be like Kramer in Seinfeld and just stay up all night playing and hanging with them. My boys are the happiest and best behaved on days when I just keep my jammies on and we play. I know this is not how life works and God would not want me to just be in my house with only my boys all day... for many reasons... but boy how I wish we could have more days where we play and snuggle and they stay this precious...just a little longer...

It will soon be ten years since I lost my mother. Ten years... Oh how my heart aches at that thought. Anyone who has lost anyone, probablly knows the feeling I have. Heart ache is the best way to describe it. My chest literally aches some days... I often wonder if my mom felt this way about us growing up. I know she was terribly sad when we went away to college. Happy for us, but it took her a little while to adjust to, "empty nesting." She didn't really want an empty nest. NEITHER do I!! Thankfully, I am a long way from that right now. Ask Jon and he will tell you we are done. However, as I once heard someone say, I feel like we're not all here yet." I loved that and it's exactly how I feel. We are finished having babies... but I would love to adopt a little girl. I long to have that mother/daughter relationship again. Is that just my dream though? Is that just my plan? I am spending a lot of time in prayer about what it is that God wants for our lives and not just what Jo wants... I am also spending a lot of time counting my blessings and working on being content. I have learned that His plans for our life are always better than anything I could ever dream up. So, for now... I am going to keep soaking in my boys and blessed family and the wonder of what God has done for me.

March, March, March

We have had a dreary March in these parts of Jerz and the Sharp boys are ready for spring! Today it was raining again when we woke up, but the rain cleared up around lunch time. So, after Jake came home from school... it was puddle jumpin' time! Boy, we needed some dirty fun.... and dirty fun is what we got. The only thing missin' was our neighbors who we missed by five minutes!  Thank you God for puddles, boys and muddy, muddy baths.

And following this photo... they were covered in mud head to toe!

The aftermath

 

 

I have a minute... literally...

Very quick pic update while I have a minute...

Trying to keep up with the neighbors

My Actor

Hiding from mommy (I was the lion)

Too much time inside... YAY for Spring!

Little spring in my step

This has been one rough, long week. It started out Sunday morning with Eko, Nikki and Sean taking off on their adventure. I am thrilled for them that they have made this decision and I have talked to Nikki a lot already, but I am struggling a little with it. I just plain miss them. Then, come Sunday afternoon Jake spiked a very high fever. He missed the whole week of school due to a terrible sinus infection and I believe he had double pink eye as well. Many, many days in a row of being in the house with some grumpzillas.... whom I love very much by the way but man.... We are home bodies for the most part. However, my boys seem to get more and more aggressive as the days pass and fresh air and a little outside play is what we really need. I tried everything to keep these boys busy. We played pretend, completed chores together, made forts, made our own playdough, watched TV, watched movies, played computer, board games, recipes... I tapped out my creative mom brain and I was exhausted. Then, Thursday Kevin woke up from his nap with red, goopy eyes.... so back to the doc went. Sure enough, double pink eye. Stuck in yet again. We were definetely getting stir crazy and then the weekend came. Daddy helped us out a ton and we were on the up and up! Then this morning Kevin spiked a really high fever. SO, back to the doctor we go tomorrow. I pray that his fever breaks tonight and he sleeps well. I have started decorating for spring, hoping it brings a little spring back in our step around here!!

Here are some pics from our week of Ca-Ra-Zee and a few other recent pics.

My sweet things actually all being sweet at the same time! Had to take a pic

Will on Valetines delivering one to a sweetheart accross the street

Too much time inside, makes mommy an organizing junky

This has been the scene lately

Solving the worlds problems... no privacy in this house

Poor boy

One of the many puzzles we created

Taken during Will's potty training hour... and now we are done until he is at least three!

Dancing with Tasha

Taken from before Nikki and Eko's party, Jake was my big helper



God is so wise. He made these little guys so cute didn't he? Even on our roughest of days..
I still want to snuggle and squeeze their cheeks!