Even The Kittens Look Like They Are In College ~ Our Story

Well, I have fallen behind again so here we go with another whirlwind catch up!

New kittens were born beside my bed.

A new phone was delivered to my door.

Nothing new here.  Just a couple of old friends.

The kittens are getting bigger everyday.

It's looking more and more like fall everyday too.

Had some birthday party fun!

Then some Chipotle picnic fun.  That's a combo we should have come up with a long time ago!

My daughters are huge.  They look like they are in college.  What is going on here?

We Fell For Greenville.  How could we help ourselves?

See, they look like they are a million years old!

A Grand TV Room Ball!

Fun with Maw Maw!

Looks like Rose had a little too much fun!

Sunday snuggles!

Outside snuggles.

Even the kittens look like they are in college!

Afton and Ponder have a new ride.  Rose is still content with the old one that no longer actually moves.

Daddy ran his race and now he is home.  Afton wants to be bike racer like Daddy.  Daddy is a popular guy around here!

Maw Maw and these new princesses are also quite popular!

Pretty little snackers on a pretty fall day!

Princess Rose-a-Pose.  She reigns supreme around here.  At least she tries to as best she can.

I Think You Can See Why ~ Our Story

How cute are all these See Ya At the Polers?  Even cuter is that that morning Afton woke up early and was so excited to tell me, "Mommy, today we are all meeting at the North Pole!" (She's the third one from the left on the front row.)

I love these little feet!

Sweet little friends!

We must have a car nap shot every week because sleeping babies are so adorable they must be photographed.

Such a pretty big girl!

Afton and Ponder in their secret garden.

Muffin and Pizza came for a visit and put on quite the ballet show on the deck!

The Cozy Coupe has never been this fun.  Thanks Pizza!

Sissy loves going to the doctor.  What a silly billy!  I love her happy face here.

Heart melting.

Even Cheerios can't stop Rose from car napping.  Just means her tummy is nice and full for her little siesta!

I am dressing Rose as a Mad Scientist for Halloween.  I think you can see why.  With that kind of raw material I think it would be wrong not to!

It Will Not Always Be So ~ Our Story

 This week's Our Story is dedicated to things that won't aways be as they are now.

Newspapers won't always lay a trail for me to find my way from my kitchen to the living room.  They often do nowadays and uncooly I often find it bothersome until by grace I remember that it will not always be so and then I can see just how precious these little paths really are.

Envelopes looking just like this one have been adding joy to our mailbox trips for more than six years now.  Soon Netflix envelopes will change. I am not as sentimental as I was when I was younger but if you think I didn't save this envelope in my attic to remember the good old days you don't know me well at all.

My children won't always eagerly bring me  handfulls of dead leaves as if they were flowers and insist that I display them prominently in our home, but I do pray that they will always find a similar delight in simple, predictable pleasures like the changing of the seasons.

 Rose is a year and a half old now.  By the time her sisters were her age one was already a big sister and the other was only weeks away from becoming one.  They were big, big girls.  No one around here is ready for "our special baby" to become a big girl yet.  She has got four people living here who are more than happy to baby baby baby her.  But even that is not keeping her a baby.  She is growing up before our eyes whether any of us want to admit it or not.  Baby Rose won't always be a baby, but she is our baby and that is something that won't ever change.

New Normal But Normal Just The Same ~ Our Story

I love how when big changes come into life (in our case recently Afton starting school) and disrupt your normal, they inevitable leave a new normal in its place.  I love how eventually the new normal starts to feel so normal that it is hard to believe it was ever new at all.  We had a pretty normal week.  New normal but normal just the same.

Long, but fun commute to school.

After school "activities".  Call anything an activity and my kids will LOVE it.

Ballet.  Even more fun when it is Bring A Friend Day!  The most fun of all when the friend you bring is your cousin!

Just another coffee set up tweak.  Definitely a part of all my normal weeks lately.

A little silly sister time.

Pretty little faces.

Princess time.

Napping in the car.

Party time!