Perseverance and pacifiers
So....remember when I wrote about how peaceful, calm, and simplified things had become? Yeah, that was short-lived. February has been crazy busy. We hosted two time-intensive events, had a full week and a half of sickness, and multiple doctor or dentist appointments between the 5 of us. Those are the things that wreck a family's routine. I've hit one of those patches where I have to push through and persevere. We've committed most of our time away to important, good things...things that I KNOW we are supposed to be doing, but sometimes part of me selfishly wishes I could reclaim more of our time. For instance, on Valentine's Day I started thinking of a list of fun things we could do all day. I could make pink, heart pancakes, then the kids and I could make Valentine sugar cookies, we could read the history behind the holiday...you get the picture. Then I remembered that my 2 year old had his well check-up that morning, and we had...