Thankful Tuesday!


I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend! We sure did! After weeks of running around every single day and making multiple trips out of town and back, it was honestly nice to not do anything much! We spent lots of time with our family and friends, eating food that's not the best for you, and I went on a completely random baking spree complete with banana pudding, peanut butter cookies, and brownies. Couch family nap times during the day and in bed movie dates with my hubby after the kids went to bed made for an overall relaxing long weekend! Now it's Tuesday and I'm preparing myself for what's to come the rest of this week.



I titled this post "Thankful Tuesday" because that perfectly describes my emotions as I woke up this morning! Today's the last day before our lives turn from busy to overly busy! Tomorrow will be the first day "Back to School" for the 3 youngest kids. Destiny is going into a Preschool program for 4 days a week, and we're keeping Ben and Jonas in Mother's Day Out twice a week. It's been a good summer break, but my goodness they are excited to go back! Most especially since my classes started last week, I've been looking forward to them going back as well! But this morning it really hit me that starting tomorrow, everything will change (yet again!)

Banana Pudding!
I'm the type of person that you might call a planner, and if you're not a planner yourself then you might call me a little bit obsessive. Most of the time I'm driving people crazy by trying to figure out weeks in advance about plans and scheduling. It's not that I'm consistently worried about stuff, I've just been blessed with organizational skills and that's how my brain functions. So when I woke up this morning realizing that starting tomorrow their new school schedules will go into full effect it made me emotional for some reason! It's one of those things you take for granted as a full time stay at home mom, time with your kids. After days, weeks, and months of momming 24/7 365 you just kind of push the fact that it's a luxury to have that much time with your kids to the back of your mind. Until you're looking ahead and realize that for the many weeks to come, you'll be without all of your babies at home 24/7.

This made me SO thankful that since the day we brought Destiny into our home I've been able to stay home with them all. It also made me realize how fast they grow up, to think that she's in Preschool this year, but come this time next year she will be in Kindergarten. It made me excited for the day's that none of us have any sort of school or obligation and that I can plan (surprise, surprise!) fun stuff for us to do together! And for now I've got their backpacks packed, their clothes picked out, and we made Back to School hand and foot prints to help celebrate and to help me always remember how little my babies truly are right now!
This whole life is full of change, and it used to bother me in so many ways, but here lately I've been just looking for and welcoming these changes into my life. Ever since I realized that I've been a much more relaxed person. Between their school and mine this fall I'll have my plate more full than it's ever been before, and I can safely say that I'm more happy now than I've ever been before. So I'm going to live today in the moment, I'm going to plan tomorrow as best as I can, and when it comes, I'm going to enjoy it and make the most out of every second I'm blessed with! And while today can be called "Thankful Tuesday", I'll do my best to have a thankful heart every single day and I encourage you to do the same! Look for a new post towards this weekend letting you all know how our first week of transition went and I hope you all have a great week! 😊

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