iced coffee and jesus : weekly rundown

Today is a bittersweet day, our youngest little boy turned three. Three? Excuse me while I go hide and cry. Why do the years have to go by faster and faster every year? I remember the details of his birth day so clearly, my first natural birth after three epi babies- he was born a whopping 9.7lbs of all boy! These past three years he has kept us on our toes! He is our family comedian, our escape artist (we won't talk of the time he ran away from home on the power wheel. Twice.) Our rough and tough, tree climbing, dirt digging, bed jumping, play outside until he passes out boy. He makes some days really hard, but even so, he is loved to bits by us all!

This week was a fairly slow one. We played at the park and splash pad with friends, and have I mentioned how grateful I am that our tiny town put in the money to build a beautiful playground and splash pad? We are blessed by it! We visited friends in their home, the kids chased frogs while I talked all things parenting, Jesus, homeschooling and life with my dear friend. Lets not forget that she made these amazing..HUGE..homemade peanut butter-oatmeal-M&M-homemade marshmallow cream stuffed cookies. To die for. I have all of the ingredients to make them now and I'm trying my best to hold out at least a few more days before indulging in another! So good.

I think I may have my first case of "runners knee". Maybe. I have a really tight feeling in my knee, not pain. Almost like something is squeezing it. Running actually makes it feel better, so I haven't stopped. I've gone a little crazy and began training for a half marathon in November- what is it about running? Can't stop. And on another note, my husband took a photo of me over the weekend. It was not a planned photo or a posed photo, he didn't even tell me he was taking it. Basically- there was no altering or staging or any trying to look good for this! And when I saw it, I was like "hey...that doesn't look so bad!" and then I was like, "hey...that is one of the first pictures I have seen of myself that I don't hate!". Non scale victory. It's the small things.

We have two weeks of school left. Two. This is my first year homeschooling that I have felt completely confident with what everyone has/is learning and the first year that I have really and truly enjoyed. It is also the first year that I have not gone back and forth on whether or not we want to continue homeschooling the next year, I am already shopping curriculum! Praising the Lord for this peace! Look out for a post on our curriculum run down for the upcoming school year this summer.