WEEKNIGHTS

I’ve spent the last week solo-parenting while Alex started his new job in Dallas. Between keeping the house show ready, homeschooling Grace and keeping the kids well fed, I’m pretty sure I’ve hit my sanity threshold. At one point I started texting Alex in puns and he assured me that I was losing my marbles. Oh goodness. Here’s the good news… Alex comes home tomorrow and I am scheduled for a pedicure and possibly a haircut. I’m just saying… things are already looking up!

Here is the silver lining:

• I have incredible babies. They are so well behaved, patient with me, grateful for the little things, and they fill my life with so much joy.
• The house has been so organized and super clean! It does help that I haven’t fired up the stove and that Alex isn’t home. Having a clean house is something that makes me FEEL so good, lifts my spirits and gives me that extra motivation to take on my day. I tell you I am now a pro when it comes to cleaning up a house in 15 minutes. It’s a new hidden talent that I’m sure I’ll tap into at some point.
• Once again I have proved to myself that I can do hard things. I know, I know… solo parenting in a beautiful home, with all of my needs met, is certainly a first world problem. However, there have been a few times where I was certain that I had met my capacity and then continued on to take another step and then another. Then I’d find myself looking back with tears in my eyes in awe of how much more I was able to take on. I sang along with Kelly Clarkson to “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and recited James 1:3-4 “or you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

Alex gets home tomorrow and then we’ll have a nice long stretch of some much needed family time before we head off to TX. I love my babies. I love that I have the priviledge of being their mama and of staying home with them. I don’t take it for granted. It’s an incredible blessing that I thank God for every. single. day.

love,

Teres