1. Lucy swimming the perimeter of the pool while 10 boys play keep away with the ball and tackle and roll in the water. Lydia fearlessly walking into water and looking up at me from the bottom. I snatched her up quickly but she did it again...and again.
2. Samuel tapping away at his drums upstairs while Lucy pecks at the piano.
3. Waiting excitedly on the front stoop to go on a blackberry picking adventure - Blackberry picking with friends, playing in the woods, PBJ eating
4. Lingering over a book, over some play dough, over a coloring page...sweet time
5. Finding a bird's egg - pretty robin blue - on the ground and admiring the beauty
6. Samuel off to baseball camp at Georgia Tech and Lucy spending the day creating art at art camp.
7. Fellowship meals at church and Moe's, play-dates and sleep overs.
8. Pictures of that new one who will join us this year - Little Go-Go
9. Fireworks with face-painted kids while husband streams patriotic songs on his phone and sweet Reagan holds an excited curlie que who ooh's and ahh's at the sites with fingers in her ears.
10. One tired mama loosing it late at night when little ones won't go to bed, when belly hangs heavy and it all seems overwhelming - the good and the hard - is it possible to keep up with it all?
11. Grateful for new mercies every morning! Grateful for His provisions, Choosing to be grateful and rest - just rest.
13. Sweet sisters playing Gorillas and Tigers OR Littlest Pet Shops OR hammock swinging OR whatever their little imaginations come up with and then seeing this out the back porch...
12. Selfie with grandma at Lucy's first ever dance recital - lots of laughs over my inability to take a selfie - this is as good as it got.
