Another night just chillin on the porch next door at my mom’s house.  We had dinner around the fire pit and relaxed after a very, very long day.  My kids chewed me up and spit me out today.  Homeschool was a nightmare today.  Jonah fell.  I dropped a mason jar full of water and it shattered.  I tipped over an entire sensory bin of small parts on the floor.  I spilled Ty’s supplements.  Full moon?  Friday the 13th?  Something….because when I sent Jase a text that said WTF UNIVERSE?! he laughed out loud.  Until he got home and then he was all WTF UNIVERSE.  Ha.

File this in two places.  1 – funny places my kids sleep.  and 2 – when my husband oversees homeschool the table looks like this.

I have to brag on him a bit. He wrangles over 1,000 birth photographers in 24 countries for IAPBP, oversees our image competition and generally keeps things running smoothly day to day on birthphotographers.com. All while moonlighting at his real job as a Software Engineer.  He also holds down the fort at home, teaches four kids who homeschool in my absence AND delivers me dinner 40 minutes away when I’m at a long birth – all so I can do what I love so much. I just wanted to publicly say thank you Jason Stradtner and I appreciate all you do for our family and birthphotographers.com!

This kid is 7.  Big, healthy, strong.  His birthday wish was shopping at the Lego store, the Thinkery and LOTS of decorations to celebrate.  So we did just that.

Spelling master. This girl has been motivated. Taryn is almost finished with school work for the entire week. On a Monday afternoon. All her idea. That girl is on fire! Independent, confident, focused. I foresee her finishing 4th grade early and moving on to 5th.

My littlest valentine. Diving in to our new book stash.