A new year...a slow start to 2007

I really need this blog to hold my thoughts...and keep my memories. I want to record how the three little ones grow...and the insanely cute things that they do/say. I want to record progress made. (In mommyland I often feel I've made no progress -like mopping the floor and that lasts until it's dry and someone spills a bowl of applesauce- -like changing diapers everyday for 5 years- -like never getting out of my pj's even though I tried real hard...I dressed 3 kiddos, and fed them 3 meals...and cleaned up appropriately in between, but somehow there was no time for me) The progress of children is slow. I only get to peak into the wonder of their souls now. I'm excited to see the individual each will become. But some days it's hard to look beyond the spilt milk. This is for me...so I can look back on better days. And hope for the better days to come. [Maybe this is a bit sappy, but I'm just home from dental work, and the drugs have yet to wear off] I knit. Almost obsessively these days as a way to grieve my gram who was the knitter in our family. Knitting is the alone time I need in the evenings when 5, 3, & 1 are peacefully asleep. It also shows progress, and thank God FO's don't take forever. I really hope to post progress and FO's, but who know if I'll figure out how to add images. I don't have the cognitive ability to do that right now (with the dentist's drugs and all) so, I'll leave with a quote Mike send me in email. Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.
-Rick Warren
See, I need that printed on my mirror, so it's the first thing I see in the morning. As long as I know God more, and bring my kids to love Him, then does it really matter if there's applesauce on the floor. That's just where I'm at these days. I'm a work in progress, and hopefully writing stuff down will help me to process and grow in 2007. Thanks for listening...km