Gettin our Craft on!

As January came to an end we figured we'd better get some Valentines Decorations up. We made hearts out of wax paper and Crayons. The girls were very helpful not to mention excited!!

I remember being a little girl and Making little things like this with my mom. I loved and do love every holiday. I especially love how as a parent I get to experience the holidays through my children's eyes.

You can see our project before we cut it into hearts. When I was in college we did this very same project. It brought back some fun memories for me. My girls love to hear stories about when Dave and I were younger and this made for some great story telling opps.
J is just glad to be there. She love just doing what the bigger girls do.

Let the cutting begin.

And........tadah!

We had fun. As of late it feels that so much of what I do is the grunt work. Cleaning, stopping fights, feeding, more cleaning, cooking, dressing everyone, doing their hair, and more cleaning. Needless to say it starts feeling a bit overwhelming and mundane. I have decided to take a different perspective on all of that though. Over the last few weeks I have been following a blog about a family and their amazing miracle. I related so much to this mom as she has four boys and is trying to fit it all in. She got distracted and her youngest son Drowned in the tub. You'll have to go read her story but as I read her story I couldn't help but think of all the ways that I get distracted from what is really important.
I feel that there are so many things that could occupy my time but it's up to me to choose what is most important. I love my Girls! They bring me some of my greatest joys. I am glad I have them. I know that if anything ever happened to them I would crumble. So my perspective that I hope to have is this...... I am grateful for smudges on the walls because that means I still have little ones(I know they will grow up way too fast.)

I am so grateful to have laundry to wash. I am grateful I have little mouths around to feed. I am grateful for crying because that means some little person wants me to hold them.

I know that everything in life is about perspective. I know that as we look for reasons to be grateful our perspective changes.

And as I wrapped up my craft with my girls I am reminded to take these moments. To just enjoy life and focus on what's most important.