I love these days…

 

Sunday morning before Church and the kids are playing so cute in the front room.  Everything seems completely perfect at this moment! I love days like this!

Add “Model” to her resume…

 

This little one is constantly being asked to model for the things I make for Ucreate or Riley Blake Designs.  And she does it happily!  Ellie puts her hands on her hips and shows her sass whenever a camera is one her cute little face.  She is my willing little model…for now.  She might not like it so much when she is older.  {Izzy hates it.}  Who are we kidding?  She has a ham for her mamma.  :)

Bad Moments…

Man, this has been a rough day.  I can’t really pinpoint anything that made it rough, but I was just on edge.  My girls seem to fight ALL the time and sometimes Ethan likes to egg them on.  But that is typical everday stuff in our home.  At dinner time, Corey called to say he would be working late and I was trying to spearhead homework (which is challenging in itself) and make dinner while at the same time refereeing the girls.  Finally I just lost it and begged the girls (rather loudly) to just stop fighting!  Then I threw a juice glass across the kitchen.  All the kids stopped in their tracks and looked at each other.  Ethan whispered timidly, “Mom, are you okay?”  I went over and picked up the juice glass and began doing the dishes.  I told Ethan that it is so hard to deal with all the fighting and then have everything to handle as well.  The children were very quiet after that moment and I cleaned the ENTIRE kitchen trying to calm down.  During this cleaning binge I remembered seeing this quote on Pinterest:

So after a rough evening, I am still a good mama…just one that had a bad moment.  Let’s face it, we ALL have them!  Here’s to a new day tomorrow.