it has been a long time since i have last posted. almost a month. i blame that on the awesome weather and the desire to take a very literal spring break. i also blame the fact that i have reached single digits in the weekly countdown to baby number 4. cue the paranoia and panic that i have experienced with EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY CHILDREN....and while i may want to look back and remember these emotions one day, the thought of documenting them requires me to think on them more...i also blame how insanely busy we have been over the past few weeks. kyle went out of town forever...well, i guess technically it was only 4 nights...but it felt like forever. thankfully, my friends and family stepped in and we enjoyed their company which helped pass the time quickly. harper had a reading contest at school which consumed almost all of our spare time. this is not an exaggeration. in a span of 3 weeks, harper read 3,809 pages. she read in the car. she read at the breakfast table. she read after dinner. she read before dinner. she read at the library (which we visited 2 times a week---go on, try that with oliver jack---i dare you). she read at the ice cream shop. she read to me while i showered. she read to me while i tried to sleep. unfortunately, she was not the top reader in her class. i'm not going to say that i find it unfair that since parents were allowed to count pages that they (the parents) had read to the child some of the numbers were inflated because that would be petty. i'm also not going to say that out of harper's 3,809 pages only 236 of those were read by me because she insisted on only counting her pages. no, instead i am going to focus on how proud i am of her...and slightly worried about the competitive drive that left me dragging her out of the library at 7:45 pm. we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus. thanks to harper's evangelism we were not to forget the true meaning of easter sunday. although be sure to know that we definitely enjoyed more than our share of sugary treats. we also took a trip to the mountains with our friends poppy, julie, and margo. i would like to say that it was fun. but after the initial day of gem mining, fossil digging, ice cream and hot tubs it was mostly a down hill battle between us and the monster that sometimes lives inside of calvary. i am still trying to forget the details. it was a week with the most promising potential that was devastated by the paralyzing realities. sigh. this weekend we have spent getting things together for the fourth installment (what were we thinking!?!?!) and recovering from our vacation. i'd like to say that things are winding down for us, but that's just not the case. on the horizon lies harper's kindergarten graduation, my baby brother's wedding, my 28th birthday (i'm only 27?!?!), our 6th wedding anniversary, and the birth of a child.
i'm going to try to be a bit more diligent to this blogging. after all, things will only be this easy for another 8 weeks. wink. smile. sigh...
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