This season with the girls has been amazing. I am not simply referencing the whimsy of summer -- the fun activities outside involving water play and sunny skies or the late night snuggling. I am thinking about this season of life…. these incredible chapters that are being co-written by two bright and amazing little girls. This is just a short list of what I am so incredibly grateful for these days: The morning snuggles when I am still in bed, and they carefully crawl in to cuddle – “Wake up smiling, Mommy, I am kissing you”. Their reminder to start the day with a Bible verse and the prayers that follow… prayers that can be incredibly poignant and sincere while equally and shockingly comedic. The constant lessons and poems and stories they are spinning… some true, some completely fictional, some loosely based on real events. The way they greet each other, with such enthusiasm and longing, after sleeping in separate rooms for their naps – “Hi Sister Boom, I miss
moments of flutter and life and learning