THESE ARE THE DAYS

I hope I can say this with every phase of our life.  Even though things seem crazy, loud, chaotic...I really am beginning to learn to just enjoy all of it.  From seeing Andrea off to school in a princess dress, endless rounds of spelling words and memory verses, to James yelling for me to watch him pitch, and Becca handing me some scraps of paper she has put together so I can use it as a grocery list. From Becca's excitement over the first time using the vault at practice or Brayden's excitement over a new book (which I am not too happy about). To all the numerous non matching socks laying in our backyard.  Brayden endlessly playing the same song on the piano over and over again...faster and faster and the catch all for any moment spent with James " I'm Hungry!"  I don't know who eats more, James or the puppy.  Lilly is downing 5 cups of food and is starving! while Ephie (95 lbs) puts away a measly 2 cups.  From the yelling over the rules for a tag game or screaming because a dog is after them, to cleaning poop off shoes. Sometimes it all drives me crazy, but more often lately it just makes me smile...and makes me hope the neighbors aren't listening!