Notes from today.

Today I decided I liked summer. At one point as I was walking around somewhere with all four of my children, I realized I wasn't annoyed. I realized that I was glad that we were all together. I thought, at least when we are all together I know what everyone is doing and how they are doing it. I hear about how they are feeling, and what they are saying, and how they are behaving. In other words, I'm there. And I decided today that that's really important to me. So while I don't love taking four kids to the grocery store, the post office or the embroidery shop, today I felt a sort of peace while doing it, knowing that it was the right thing to be doing.

I just didn't want to forget that feeling.

Jane told me tonight to take her picture because she looked like a mommy. I thought that was sweet.

At lunch today, Ruby sat down at the table with an orange popsicle flavored yogurt and said, "Click on my mouth if you want me to eat my yogurt." I looked up to see if I had heard her correctly, and sure enough she had her pointer finger "clicked" on her chin, and only when her finger was in place, could she proceed eating her yogurt. It was at that point, when I realized that she viewed herself as an interactive webpage element that perhaps (just perhaps), my 3 year old is playing too many games on Nickjr.com. But it still made lunch time super funny to me.

Darin picked up George's apron from the embroidery shop this evening. We were all very excited about that. It inspired George to put it on and make dessert for everyone. He made a pot of hot chocolate. At that moment I fell in love with my children all over again, because do you know any other four children who unanimously agree that a pot of hot chocolate in August is an outstanding solution for dessert? Yeah, I didn't think so.

And finally today, I had a vision. I remembered this $3 bedskirt I picked up from a Target clearance rack months ago. It managed to make the move with us, even though it's a queen size, and not really a solution for any bed in this house. But today, mid morning routine, I remembered it, pulled it out and realized it could make some darling curtains for the girls room! So I had mental stimulus throughout the day in my mind as I did some mild math problems, and envisions sewing strategies for turning this bedskirt into curtains.

Now the question remains, should it happen tonight? Or should I go to bed?!

Those are my notes from today.