This Simple Life: This not-so-Simple Life

When I began this blog, I thought that I would try to post here once a week with the purpose of recording my life during the years that I stay at home with my child(ren). The truth is, I have such a terrible memory that this is just one more way that I can look back and remember what has happened in my life. Really...seriously...you wouldn't believe how many times my husband recalls details from our lives together and I look at him funny and say..."Really? Wow. I don't remember that at all." So of course, I thought that blogging would be a great way to remember interesting things that happen in our lives. The problem is that so many interesting things have been happening in our lives that I haven't had time to keep a very normal schedule! I feel like we have been away from home as much as we have been at home over the last nine months. And when we are home, I feel like I am just playing catch up all the time! Let me put this in perspective. Here are the major highlights (and I am probably forgetting things:

A week-long trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe area with my mom and good friend Lauren
FOUR trips to Kansas for two different weddings, a convention, and Christmas with Jeremy's family
A trip to Colorado to meet our new niece, Skye
Helping my sister clean and move into her lovely new house
An open house (that I helped organize) for that lovely new house
Most of a week spent in that same new house for Thanksgiving with my family
A weekend getaway with some of the Shue ladies for craft weekend
A trip to Virginia with family for my brother's ordination service
Several days stay with my dad so my mom could visit a friend in Colorado
A trip to Costa Rica to visit a good friend in the Peace Corp
And most recently, another conference for church in Orlando, Fl

      While all of these things have been great experiences, they all mean that we do not have any kind of normal routine at home. And I did not even include any of our normal routines and responsibilities around the house and in our community in the list.

   Needless to say, I am totally excited about the fact that we have a relatively free summer staring us in the face! It's true, we will have lots of weekend activities, church events, family visits, a garage sale, and all of our normal outdoor chores to keep up with, but all of these things happen near home!!! I love visiting family or taking special trips, but our routine at home is so important for me and for Josiah. We need some consistent routine for our lives to run smoothly, as evidenced by the EXTREMELY difficult time we have been having with our bedtime routine (a different blog for a different day).

   So...hear goes...we're jumping into Summer with both feet and loving (almost) every bit of it!!!