Sleeping babies warm my heart

 I was about to go to sleep, but then I saw this:

Ok, now I gotta go to sleep for real.

FIRST DAY!

Elijah=7th grade
Claire=5th
Iris=3rd
Sybil= PrePreK
And Zoe, who carpools with us=6th
This picture was taken at 6:34am. Although they were about to hop in the car, Sybil was just awoken and is in her PJs, Iris has chlorinated dreds...

Claire is fake-yawning, and Elijah is sooooo happy.

Today I've been hyperventilating to the tune of, "There aren't enough hours in the day."

• 2 hours of dropping off, including time in-between with Sybil, vacuuming and wiping down the inside of the car
• grocery shopping (3 times) including infernally eternal school supplies
• ministering visit, including cleaning and folding laundry
• oil change
• wrapping Iris' presents
• gym
• almost 2 hours of picking up from school
• and then the after-school rat races (figuratively)

Now it's past my bedtime. David went to bed a while ago. And the house is still a mess. 

Our house guests moved out today and GG and Pops come tomorrow. 

Ahh, tomorrow = another rat race

But I am excited for Iris' Golden Birthday!

8 on the 8th

Cousin Camp!

My niece, Elle, hosted a girl's camp for the girl cousins. 

They loved it!

Here are some pics:

The boys hung out while the girls had their free time. 

I was a loner and almost didn't know what to do with myself.

 I mostly took naps and hung out with my parents.

These 2 are best friends forever!

On the last day of Cousin Camp, I ventured out to look for a shower curtain and happened to bump into one of my good friends. It's been too ling!