Welcome to Camp Funk

lots going on here

First off we took Grandma Mimi home and then 5 of us seemed to get an awful sinus/flu cold.  No puking but fevers, sinus crap and body aches like you wouldn't believe.  We are a family that never usually gets sick so it totally sucked.  On a good note i'm behind on my reading so i was able to read 4 books in 5 days and it rocked.  Loved all the books i read.  Sad and truly disturbing to beautiful and touching.

This little star is completely potty trained.  I think everyone here loves him in his undies.  He's so darn cute.  Now we just have to work on wiping and not sliding off the potty.  Bittersweet for me being done with diapers.  I have been diapering for 14 years and i love it!!

Love this man with all my heart..

This star waited a year and a half for this autograph...

busted...

the protectors of my menu for the week

my happy salad muncher

life is what you make of it

Our pork nachos were amazing..no leftovers here

Love how the kiddos make their plates.  So blessed and thankful for all of our food.

latest art projects 

thank you for the flowers grandma mimi

seriously..this was papas birthday card..

thank you for the coffee blessing...

I honestly just haven't had any time to write as you can see.  

moms–what you do matters.

And if you never accomplish anything more than mothering these sweet and sour kids at your feet or towering above your head, than you have done it all.

You have done enough.

 We change diapers and  wipe butts.  We clean and trim other people’s finger and toenails. We give up the other half of our lunch so our child can have a second lunch. We smell socks and underwear to determine if they are clean or not. We wait for hours and hours and hours in doctors offices, dental appointments and practices.  We nag and mend and listen and love. We weep and whisper prayers and wear weary babies and we wish for answers. We constantly clean up messes we don’t make. We give up our bodies, our beds, our figures, our very lives for other people. We sacrifice something we really want for something our kids really need.

We say yes.

And then we say yes some more. Some days we say yes without getting anything in return.

Because that’s what moms do.

  The unseen, unknown hard work of motherhood is changing your kids’ world. And it matters that you do it.

On day there won’t be anyone asking to borrow our clothes, reaching for our hand, making us handmade cards, filling our car with smells, our home with messes, our lives with noise.

We love that even though we don’t love every minute of motherhood, every phase, every hard day that leaves us weary and wondering if we are doing it right–

we love that God chose us for them