No pictures.....

There are so many precious moments that I get with just me and the boys and of course there is no one here to photograph it!!. I already look back and see pictures of stuff we did 3 years ago and can barely remember it. I know I will really forget some of the times that we have when there are no pictures to look back and remember with. Tonight, as we were going through our new scheduled night time kindergarten-in-the-morning ritual, I realized how fast my time at home with Chase went and how fast the rest of this is going to go too so I thought I would start "journaling" some of the things we do even if there are no pictures to go along with it, just for memories sake. We have never gone to bed early, for the past 5 years, we have gone and done full force from morning until 10:00 or 11:00 at night (and later). So, this regular supper time, bath time, story time, and bed time is a new thing for us. And though the other was fun for then, this is pretty cool too for this time in our life. We had supper early, and were done with bath by 7:15 so we got our 'jommas' on went for a before dark four wheeler ride. Mason rode with me and Chase drove his. It was a gorgeous night and it felt so good, we all 3 got our sunglasses on to keep the bugs from going in our eyes and rode all over the farm for 30 minutes. It was so fun... Mason fell asleep as I figured he would so when we got back to the house, I put him to bed and Chase and I rode bikes in the driveway and yard until time to go in and go to bed. We raced down the little hill in our driveway and he bet me that I couldn't make a circle at the bottom without putting on my brake, and he was right, I couldn't. He could and he thought that was really cool. It was just such a fun night with them. Then we came in and read Green Eggs and Ham, and A Silly Snowy Day (very appropriate for an August night) in the recliner and I tucked him into bed. I am not used to this structured way of life yet, and I have always loved that we were fun and flexible and didn't have a structured schedule to our lives, but I am doing my best and know that with this new phase of school life, it is needed and beneficial and I think we are going to make it just fine, and still have lots of fun... just structured-y kind of fun!

I love my life!