Thank Goodness for Babies

2year old and 4 year old on the counter helping make breakfast
2 year old is poopy
It's a bad one. Poop flies out when I take off his pants. It has already run down his legs. It hits my arm and the clean jeans I just put on.
4 year old yells from the counter that there's poop on the kitchen counter, too.
6 year old walks down the hall and tells me he peed his bed.
That makes 5 loads of laundry for the day instead of 4, I guess.

All before 7 a.m.

I take a 2 minute break an hour later to check if that email I'm waiting for has arrived.
Newborn baby is in the MOBY.
I look down at his sweet face. His eyes are closed, his mouth is open. He is totally relaxed. And then he smiles one of those happy dreams smiles.

My heart rate slows. I breathe more deeply.
It's going to be just fine.
What is it about babies that slows us down?
That helps us remember the eternal scheme of things?
The long-term perspective that makes us stop and enjoy the moment?

I don't know, but I'm thankful for babies:-)

Oh-gotta go. 4 year old has hopelessly tangled a comb in her hair.:-)

Livin' the Dream!

Vancouver BC

I think I've mentioned before that my husband sometimes does "things" that make me go, "uh...why?"

Like recently when our newborn baby was only days old, and we dragged our whole family to City Hall to get passports.

I have to admit that part of me was thinking, "Really? This has to happen NOW?"

We had no travel plans. Passports cost money. I had my doubts.

And now I'm eating my words.
Again.

Last night my husband told me that a coworker mentioned the open house for the Vancouver BC temple on the bus ride home from work.

And spontaneous as he is, he said, "Let's go!"

And what do you know? The passports got here just days ago. So we actually CAN go.

I am so excited! I think the kids will love going inside the temple and feeling the wonderful Spirit that is there.

And the plan is to also visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge
We'll see which of the kids will be brave enough to cross that. Since they've seen "Horton Hears a Who", their imaginations are running wild with images of boards falling 200 feet:-)
(Here's the clip from the movie if you haven't seen it.)

It feels like Forever since we've done something fun together as a family with all the health issues lately, so I am feeling very blessed for this timely and meaningful trip we'll be able to take!

Livin' the Dream