so you think i'm nuts?

A few of you have been asking... Where am I? Is everything ok? 


The answers to those questions are... Here! and Yes!


Life. Has. Been. Busy.


I have no idea how to explain the word "busy" in a way that would make sense to anyone... but it looks something like...


Both hubs and I were working full-time this last week... No, make that over-time... Sick baby for six days (and counting) needing mama's attention/affection every spare moment... Late nights preparing my teaching material after baby is in bed... Cleaning the house top-to-bottom (picture holding a miserable little Levi with one hand while scrubbing the toilet with another - true story) for incoming international house guests... Receiving international house guests... Welcoming 50ish people home from our latest medical outreach to Papua New Guinea on the YWAM Medical Ship... Sending off another two teams of young people to do outreach in Australia and Papua New Guinea... Hosting about 120 delegates to conferences being run by the non-profit we volunteer/work for... Receiving over 50 new students into our training schools... Oh yeah, and did I mention sick husband... And baby tooth number four - that same little culprit that first poked through at four months creating such havoc before disappearing again and now (five months later) has finally moved in for the next several years... And doctors visits... And groceries... And five million loads of laundry...


So yeah, when I say "busy" it looks a little something like that.


And I guess you can add that at the end of this week when my (lovely!) overseas guests depart, I have a few hours to wash the sheets and clean and get the guest room ready for another guest that comes for the following week.


Oh, and then there's the preparing for our trip to America that is {gasp} less than a month away. And getting our immigration paperwork sorted. And booking our hotel and car for our layovers. And lining up when to see what friends and where. And scheduling visits to the dentist. And organizing our Christmas party, which will double as an anniversary party to celebrate our 10 years volunteering/working with YWAM. And finding our stockings so we can take them with us. And...


Maybe I should have just stopped after writing, "preparing for our trip to America" so that I wouldn't be breaking into a cold sweat right about now. {ahem}


Oh yeah, and somewhere in there I'm going to try and celebrate my 33rd birthday. (I really want to have a lawn bowling and mustache party... we'll see if we can pull it off.)


That's all I have for you today. My head is FULL of things that I want to write about... and my hard drive is FULL of half-written posts that only need some attention and editing... But right now it's all I can do to sit and write out my madness.


So welcome. To my madness. Welcome to my madness.


Life is crazy. My family is nuts. 


But we are happy.


We love all the excitement and the challenge and the things going on around us.


BUZZ.


So... I am here.... I am great... Just busy. That's all. Just busy.


Thanks for asking. 


I'm scheduling some writing time in the next few days so I'll be back... I know, I know... you wait on the edge of your seat. {grin} I'll try to deliver. I'll try not to disappoint.


I'll write about motherhood and babies and all the stuff you've come to expect... and maybe a few things you wouldn't expect. {more grinning}


Dear friends, do you think I'm nuts? Are you nuts? Is life more fun when it's nuts?? I know I'm not alone here... What does your "busy" look like?? Is it as nutty as mine?


love with a side of nuts,

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what are you looking forward to?

Moms Who Work is over. {Phew.}


I so enjoyed that series and the array of perspectives from the featured guest bloggers. Many of you commented and emailed me about how the series encouraged, validated, challenged, or inspired you in your positions as moms working in all types of capacities. I'm so, so glad!


You deserve to feel valued... and celebrated.


But now friends... I must admit... it's good to be back, without a series... free to ebb and flow with however my inkling takes me.


I originally thought I would take the two weeks during the series to be able to spend more time writing - you know, banking up some posts... planning ahead... getting my bazillion half-written posts edited and ready for publishing.


And then life happened.


I had some speed bumps, some bruises, some challenges in my personal world that threw me for a loop and left me a little worse for the wear.


But even when life gets tricky, there's always still plenty of beauty to behold if you're looking.


I've had some incredible moments lately...


Being greeted with a little piece of heaven that looks something like this:

And enjoying the moment doing things like this:

And celebrating worthy milestones with things like this:

{levi and ryan's first australian fathers day}

And laughing in amusement at things like this:

{apparently tarzan baby doesn't know the one-shoulder look is so last year}

And getting delightfully messy doing things like this:

And crawling around the kitchen floor capturing "ordinary" moments like this:

But mostly just swooning because of love like this:

So yeah... I don't have any posts "banked" like I'd hoped. {Many drafts, yes, but nothing banked.} But that's okay... I am so looking forward to writing.


Because you know what? I have missed regular writing terribly. I've missed connecting with the part of myself that writing comes from.


So here I am... back. 


And it. feels. good.


My little fingers clicking, my hard drive filled with new photos, and my brain buzzing with so many ideas waiting to be captured in print. It feels so good. {Oh wait, I've already said that.}


But today friends, today... I just want to say I'm back.


And I'm excited about it.


I'm looking forward to a new month and another chapter... and I'm looking forward to writing it. Because, as plain and simple as it sounds... I love to write.


Dear mommy-friends, what are you looking forward to?


feeling a little bit wistful,

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