Ok... so it's been a while... yes, a long long while but I'm here and I guess that means I am back.
So much has been going on around here as one might expect but those are surely not excuses. :) Life is good and I am happily plugging along in the trenches of motherhood - somedays slugging it out is a more accurate description. The kids are busy with school and activities and I'm busy just trying to keep them all clothed and feed and keep this house from being considered condemned! I guess since it's been a while it's time for the "what we've been up to" post that I am starting to be famous for here in blogger land but since it's already late and I have other things on my mind, I'm going to save that for another time. (I can hear the collective sigh of relief! - oh wait, maybe that was me! ;) )
Anyway, I was inspired to come here and share a bit about the little things in life. Perhaps I should actually put them down as the LITTLE things. Because when raising a family it really is the little things that matter most. Sure everyone loves and remembers the big things in life, like that once in a life time vacation or the welcoming of a new sibling. But what I'm talking about is the things of life that really make life rich. The things that I hear the kids talking about together later on, those kinds of things that adults do and might not really get the weight or value it adds to a childs life. You see it all stems from the fundamental wish of a child to just spend time with his or her parents. Just doing 'nothing' or 'hangin' out'. These are the kinds of things that when life gets busy we tend to let slip and maybe don't realize what riches that are in these gems of moments. One of these little big things we do is something that got named a Pizza Popcorn Pajama Party a number of years back... probably when we only had 3 kids. It's now a Friday night tradition that the kids love and look forward to all week - and we do too! Sure to us its just pizza and a movie on the living room floor but to them its a 'thing'. You know one of those 'things' that will linger with them into adulthood and could manifest it's self into a family tradition of their own some day.
