Don't Carpe Diem

I wanted to share an article I read recently. It made me laugh. It made me cry. It made me laugh at motherhood and cry with joy that these beautiful children are mine. Read it! You'll love it! Here it is.
The article talks about 2 different types of time. Chronos time- the hard, slow-passing time- regular time. And then there is Kairos time. This is God's time. It's those moments when time seems to stop for a moment and you feel such joy. 'My cup runneth o'er' moments. I love those moments. Like when Emma, on her own accord, takes the 2 little ones to the couch and reads to them. Like when Grant gives me a big slobbery kiss and looks me right in the eyes to say he loves me.
Then there's Chronos time. It has taken a month to recover from Christmas vacation. The time just seemed to drag. I couldn't seem to be able to get anything done. I just barely took the Christmas decorations down last week. I finally posted about Christmas (find the post here.) And really, the only reason I was able to accomplish all that is because I had sick children and so we weren't able to attend pre-school and kindergarten co-op last week and I allowed the kids to watch movies all day!
One of the highlights of January was going to see the Peking Acrobats at UC Berkeley. We attended a special school performance during the day. The kids loved it! (Notice Arianna wanting to be an acrobat in her Birthday interview) They were amazing!!
If you are interested, look at these images of the acrobats. Simply amazing!
I also managed to post about the rest of Arianna's Birthday celebration. Go here to see that- just one post ago. You've got to check out her cake!

Well it's final- I think I am finally caught up!! Now if only I could keep up with everything else in my life!!!!

Here are some pictures of our last few weeks:



Kiddos helping to wash teh van after our long car trip.

Grant and Daddy. Those outfits weren't planned. I promise. (Aren't they adorable!)


Here are the girls practicing acrobatics.

Emma tumbling- just like the acrobats.