My Darling Girls

I sure love my darling little girls! I LOVE being a stay-at-home mom and spending all day with them.  Jenna is so good at playing pretend.  She is so imaginative.  She likes me and Ivy to play along.  The other day, while I was sorting laundry and making dinner, she was playing ship.  I was the captain, she was a 5 year old on the ship and Ivy was a 3 year old.  She kept coming up with different scenarios and our game lasted about 2 hours.  I am lucky and grateful that she plays around what I am doing so I can still get things done around the house and play at the same time!  Ivy is happy, spunky, fun and smart!  It is so fun to watch her play with things and figure things out.  She thinks Jenna is hilarious and she makes the CUTEST facial expressions. They are so much fun!
Today, I was going downstairs to put the laundry that was in the washer in the dryer.  Ivy wanted to be held, so I was bringing her with me, and Jenna wanted to come too.  Jenna likes taking the clothes out of the washer and putting them into the dryer so I was letting her do it while Ivy and I helped a little.  Jenna wanted to do it in speed motion so she was going really fast and breathing really fast to be funny.  Ivy was laughing so hard! Which of course made Jenna and I laugh as well.  As we were doing laundry together, and I was watching and listening to my girls making each other laugh, I just felt so much joy.  They are SO precious.  This stage in our lives is so precious.  And everything we get to do together is precious.  I LOVE being their mom, and I LOVE staying at home with them.  I am so blessed. I am grateful to recognize the preciousness of these moments as often as I do, rather than letting them pass by and not realizing all of these sweet moments and opportunities until they are far in the past.  I love right now and have been loving 'right now' since I was pregnant with Jenna.  Raising children starts out amazing, and just seems to somehow get even better and better. Don't get me wrong, we have rough moments too.  But overall, so much joy comes with having children.  I am so grateful to the Lord for the Plan of Salvation and the role of families in that plan.  I am so grateful for my forever family!

Love them!