Sorry I'm such a slacker.

I'm just keeping my floors clean and groceries bought, which leaves nothing fun to tell.

Kate did watch a movie yesterday that was one of her go-to movies during my season of sewing Christmas gifts and flower girl dresses, and I literally felt anxiety when I heard the movie's songs play again.  Like all that stitch-ripping and careful pattern pinning was piled in front of me again.  I fear it will be a while before I get my sewing machine out again.  Maybe next Christmas.

I'm just really enjoying perfect spring days for ripping out overgrowth along our fence line.  I could do that for years, I think.  It's like 4' deep along the whole thing.  Last week I raked and clipped years of fallen leaves and vine-age for about 5 hours.  Vines are like demons!  They are terrible.  I had some blisters to show for it and about 20' of cleared and beautiful fence line.  Like, 97 more feet go to.  

We're planning our summer so that the girls don't just play with play dough and the slip-and-slide every day.  Hopefully swimming lessons will take this year and the girls will actually learn to swim.  :)
We'll save gymnastics for August.  I think I'll order a how-to painting DVD for Claire, and whoever else wishes to try their hand at it.  I hate for all that free time to be wasted.  It would be nice to say at the end of the summer that each of the girls grew in certain areas, rather than sat and let their brains mushify.

This is how I want to grow.  I read a post from DesiringGod.org the other day that just made me say, "AH! I HAVE to die!  I just have to!"  The Everyday Question of Motherhood.  Did I sacrifice today?  Did I show them that I love laying my life down for them?

2Corinthians 4:11 - "For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that His life may be revealed in our mortal bodies."

2Corinthians 5:14-15 - "For the love of Christ compels us, because we have concluded this: that One has died for all, therefore all have died, and He died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who for their sake died and was raised."

"Will I joyfully pour out my life as a fragrant offering before the Lord for the benefit of my children?  Our self-death for Christ's sake not only produces fruit in our own hearts, but produces fruit in the hearts of our children."
That is quoted from the Desiring God post  I read.  Check it out.