Do I value having money or time the most? Work is beginning to feel like a tether where it used to be a joy. That's not totally, or even half, true. It's still a joy, and new children keep coming. We have a new four year old boy who only stays until nap time. Forgot how little boys change the dynamics since I've had all girls for the last year or so. Those kids had fun racing, wrestling, jumping, running, rolling, dancing, summersaulting, gyrating, pushing, pulling, yelling, twisting, whooping & hollering, climbing the whole morning. Jenelle kept telling Elias, "It's not wrestle time now!" He really was quite taken with her and grabbed her every five minutes but she pushed him away when she'd had enough and told him again that it's not wrestling time. So funny. They're all so darned cute. I always want children in my life but just not such long, long days, every day.
It rained all week again but the sun has come out at last to stay awhile. This picture is Makenna directing a spider with her finger. She's not afraid of them. I have to work so hard to undo the fear mothers put in their children about spiders. The kids know to look out for the big shiny black ones we find outside. Every week now we turn over all the outdoor toys, the climbing structures and play house to hose out and check for Black Widows. But the little spiders like this one, I call "Charlotte" and soon the children lose their fear.
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