Summertime Play

I wish you could have been here on such a gorgeous day. The pictures don't tell the story. It was a comfortable 78 degrees with a nice easy breeze. The bright blue sky was full of big white cottony clouds. The trees were green and smelled fresh. A perfect day for a bike ride. All the kids were up for it. Jack and Sam rode and Blake and Claire got a ride from me. Smiles all around. I love this beautiful world that God has given to us to care for and enjoy. I love sharing it with my kids. Coasting down a hill with the wind in your face, enjoying the view, and loving life!

After our bike ride we took a break to enjoy the swings. I love to swing, the wind in your hair, up and down, and how can you help but smile. The breeze was wonderful, the humidity low, and the sky was bright with big billowy clouds. {I can't get over the Sky. I know I am going on about the clouds ,but man they were awesome.}

Isn't it amazing how a child can go from happy to sad in an instant. I am not sure if being happy is a state of mind , if it is Claire moves from state to state at a very fast pace. Especially when she is dead tired. When I took her out of the swing{ I did warn her several times that this was coming} She let out a piercing scream, then wailed for 10 minuets. Fun car ride to Costco! She feel asleep of course as we drove into the parking lot and I carried her all through the store.

Beautiful Creations

1.mountains

2.Ocean

3. Sunsets

"Oh Lord my God When I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds thy hand hast made..." " Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee... How great thou art, How great Thou art."

It's Raining, It's Pouring!

It rain's about every four days lately, not that I'm complaining ,we do need the moisture. The problem with the rain is it makes me quite lethargic. I just can't seem to get all my eggs in a row. I get forgetful. Even when I think I'm doing great I forget something important. Yesterday, As I took my time getting ready for church,I thought we are doing great, everyone is almost ready and we still have time for a small snack before we leave. {Our church meets at 12:30 and the kids are starved after}. We get to church,on time, and something jogs my memory. I was supposed to go to welfare meeting before church. The illusion of a great accomplishment {being on time with no yelling or hurrying} vanishes. I know you think great accomplishment? {don't judge on your own merits} We struggle every week with this problem. So much for being on time.

The rain does however keep my kids asleep a little longer. It also make the forest glow shiny green and silvery, it is beautiful. It keeps down the pollen so I don't sneeze as much. The frogs love it, so every night we get drowned in a deep throng of croaks. I love to run in the rain. The air is so pure and highly oxygenated, makes you feel alive from your lungs out. Plus you get very wet. Now that we live here, my hair basicly has no style, so I don't care if it gets wet. The rain is also good for the skin. (View from my bedroom window)

Eventhough I get forgetful, the rain still makes me smile!

Cardinal Rule

As mentioned in an earlier post we have a lot of nature here around us. Sam called us into the living room to look out the windows at some Cardinals building their nest, We watched for about a half an hour as the male"Red bird" and the female"not so red bird" would take turns leaving and coming back with twigs and grass to make the nest.

Luckily, the bushes by the other windows provided enough materials for them so we could follow them from bush to bush, on the inside from window to window. It was so fascinating to watch, the kids loved it.

They were entranced with comments of "this is so cool""did you see that""that is awesome""there they go, do you see them""they are over here""Wow,We live in a Zoo". It is awesome. We went to the computer to find the Cardinal Call, so we could recognize it when we are outside.

The next day we saw a group of deer eating our bushes. We could watch deer forever.

"Pinkletinks"

We live in the woods, right? In the woods there are various types of creatures. Many which I don't care to know about. Well, right about dusk, this little creature, the "Spring Peeper" {A tree frog other wise known as "Pinkletinks"and "Tinkletoes" depending on where you live} starts his mating call. When you listen to this you think "That doesn't sound too bad." Multiply this by about a thousand and you get a Pinkletink chorus. Imagine trying to go to sleep being serenaded by all these frogs. They are quite annoying and no matter how many times I ask them to whisper they don't. RUDE!

Spring has Sprung!

Today in Richmond it was about 77 degrees. It was a beautiful day. Jack was at scouts and Sam And Blake were playing at a friends. Claire and I took a turn around the yard. She loved the flowers, pulling off just the heads at first. I showed her how to pick the stem and she went crazy. I love spring time in Virgina.