Close to Perfect!

Life is how it should be. The babysitting kids were gone by 6:30 and supper was on the table by 6:45. We sat down as a family to the table and ate dinner with a fire blazing in the fireplace. When we were done with dinner it was cleared from the table and cleaned up. As the girls finished the job I hopped upstairs and ran a tub for the babies. I dumped the babies in the tub and spent time playing with them as I bathed them, then out of the tub and to the changing table I took Jilli to get her ready for bed as the older girls ran more water and jumped in with Mel. The babies were out and ready for bed by 8 and the bigger girls are heading off to bed at 8:45. It is great to have things work as planned and run smooth. It makes life easier, and it happens only 5% of the time, but oh when it does life is bliss. Then comes the reality that Mel is now trying to sweep the carpet with the broom and messing all sorts of things up while trying to fall down the stairs. The girls are extending their wake time by taking forever brushing and rebrushing their hair, and reading over my shoulder as I type this. It worked well for a while though. My lil Jilli is still good for momma, she has drifted off to sleep while watching Monday night football with her daddy. Ahh, life is still bliss in all this activity. I enjoy the daily interactions of my children and am so happy to finally have things so good. We have worked so hard for this and now it all falls into place. Now to just keep it in place while the world spins around us.
So many people in today's world don't know this feeling. Too many families are caught up in the rat race that is the world we live in. Whether they are just trying to make ends meet or trying to give their kids a better life, or just trying to line their pockets and fill their lives with material needs. I feel sorry for them, to not know this peace and harmony that we have found. Of course we have no money in the savings for vacation, and only are able to manage a bit for the kids for college fund, but we have what is necessary. Not to mention we get so much back at tax time we can afford a trip home each summer to visit my mother, and tickets for the train a couple times a year for her to visit us. I might complain sometimes but we really don't have it that bad. My husband doesn't feel like he does enough, but currently he is supporting this lifestyle on his paycheck, as I have not received any pay from the daycare as of yet. Not bad in this day and age.
We could have things so much worse, so I have to thank God everyday that He has made all this possible for us, and given us wonderful healthy children to boot. I am just feeling very thankful today as I see how close to perfect we are doing.

Separate from that I have found some interesting things online today that are noteworthy. For those of you Myspacers there is this wonderfully funny man on there and YouTube. The myspace page is www.myspace.com/markday , he is hilarious. He is slightly political and somewhat sarcastic, but all funny and he makes some very good observations of our political system from the point of view of an outsider looking in, as he was raised in Scotland. Give it a look and leave a comment, or rate his videos.

For the moms out there I have found and interesting website www.cafemom.com it is a moms site to share parenting stories and advise as well as resources. It is a great resource and interesting to see other points of view.

Then something I just found 4 months ago, but love so much it is www.freecycle.org . It is a great resource for recycling and keeping things out of the landfill as well as getting rid of used things that really aren't used up. I like to do the kids clothes this way, usually they go to someone that can really use them.

So check my site picks, and let me know what you think about them.