Ode to My Joy

 How can you look at this picture and NOT smile??  Can you hear their laughter??  I can.  I hear it all day. I see their messes and mischief. They are little partners in crime, these two.

I try to sit down to play the piano, to practice Primary songs in case I ever get called to serve there, which the thought scares me out of my wits and keeps me up at night.  Anyway, I sit down and there come these two.  First they both slap the keys as I try to continue to play.  Then, they want to sit on me or by me. Then they kick me off the bench altogether.

I was thinking just this week that our home has changed now that they have joined our family.  It would be such a different place without them.  For the first time since we started having kids, I feel I am at my max. I can do no more. I can barely keep up. Having said that, we love these little ones that came to our family, one right after another.  They have brought us so much joy.  They have taught my older kids how to care for someone else and to put their needs ahead of their own.  They know how wonderful it is to hold a wee one and kiss their soft little cheeks.  They know that we all have to work together and that Mom can't do it all.  We have all learned so much and I am so glad.

But, enough of this sentimental stuff!!  I gotta go....Noah put some toys and other random items in the dishwasher so I better go fish them out......and start a load of laundry.....and get Audrey some milk in the PINK cup NOT the blue one....and.....on...and on I go........... But my joy IS full.