Good Like a Medicine

Summer is usually “on the go” time for many families, and this month is packed (pun intended) with travels and events in our family. We have special birthdays, weddings, and trips out of the country, and I am praying that we survive and enjoy the coming weeks! This past week we were able to celebrate our nephew Samuel’s 10th birthday, Father’s Day with our dads, and the birth of our friends’ new baby girl Addison. It was good to see my sister almost 7 months pregnant with her first baby, and I spent a couple of nights at the home of my best friend from high school and college, Carrie. When Eric was gone with his dad and brother to a baseball game, we stayed up late eating junk food and talking in our pajamas. It was great fun!

Steven and Meredith enjoy some time on top of the dryer in the laundry basket.

Our blue hydrangeas are blooming, and they are gorgeous!

Lately I have been brave enough to try bathing all of the kids together in one bath. It is an experience! I took this picture about a minute before Meredith went UNDERWATER, and the rescue attempt nearly caused me to faint! Steven and Lydia were totally in the way, and it felt like it took me 20 seconds to get to her. Now I know how my midwife felt when Meredith was born and she couldn’t get into that deep tub of water! Terrible! I am slowly compiling a (LONG) list of “bad mother” events that have happened to me (or sometimes because of me) in the last 4 years, and perhaps one day (a long time from now) I will be bold enough to post it.

Naaaah. Probably not. Have a great week!