This about sums up the last month or so....most definitely this past weekend. Life is definitely exhausting right now, for everyone in our family. Chris is preaching his last sermons at our churches, we are packing up and organizing the house, I've been working a lot lately while praying at the same time that consulting contracts and other possibilities go through before I reach the end of my rope (ah!), but most of all, I've been keeping up with two 2.5 year old twins while trying to do all of the above. I am so, so thankful to my sister who took vacation from work to come "vacation" - (ha ha!) with us for a few days. Her help was TREMENDOUS beyond words. We got so much done, and it would not have been possible without her here to simply (did I just say simply?) play with our girls. They love her and on our way home tonight, all they kept asking me was "Where's Ro Ro?" They love her and so do we.
Last weekend we were at our church camp meeting for several days...my mom came to the rescue that weekend, helping me take the girls to their special little children's classes, and even giving Chris and I a COMPLETE gift of letting us eat a dinner with his executive committee without 2 toddlers! Of course, if you ask Chris, I was a nervous wreck, worrying the entire time that my mom needed me to help, but she made it (of course) and even had the girls down to sleep when I "rescued" her. How thankful am I to her for her help that weekend. We made it.
Last weekend we were at our church camp meeting for several days...my mom came to the rescue that weekend, helping me take the girls to their special little children's classes, and even giving Chris and I a COMPLETE gift of letting us eat a dinner with his executive committee without 2 toddlers! Of course, if you ask Chris, I was a nervous wreck, worrying the entire time that my mom needed me to help, but she made it (of course) and even had the girls down to sleep when I "rescued" her. How thankful am I to her for her help that weekend. We made it.
Wow does this age push the exhaustion button of this mommy to the fullest extent. But equally -- no, way more than equally -- rewarding. Tonight Madeline was exhausted from the unbelievably full day we had, so she climbed up on my lap to eat her hot dog -- no, her "dog hot" -- only this time, she reached her little arm up around my neck, completely around my neck, and laid her head against the curve of my neck while she ate. She just curled up into a little snuggly ball while she ate her "dog hot". And then I got to put my two angels to bed and hear their little prayers for "Ro Ro....Cay Cay's Mommy...." and, "Sadie."
Oh my babies....all grown up into full "wear my momma out" toddlers, but still my babies. I will totally take it.
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Well I am crying. Bawling! I miss them so much already! But please, please have them to continue to pray for Sadie. That dog needs all the help she can get! how sweet!!! I love to hear their prayers. When I lost my keys they both hit the floor praying, "ro ro keys! Ro ro keys!" Only later did we find out that the keys were directly under where they were praying! Nothing better then the prayers of babies!!
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