Reasonable Resilience

Ms Jennifer came along Noah prefers sand over water Floaty flys in strong winds Grace prefers water to sand Oh yeah, I was there too.

Today was Grace's first day of Kindergarten. Today was Noah's first day of not having to fight with his big sister for mommy's attention. Today was the first day I thought about how different our life is going to be from now on. I hadn't given myself time to think about it before today and that may have been a mistcek, or possibly divine intervention. I think God wanted my last weekend of summer to be great, and it was. Time with family and friends. Good food and relaxing beach time. Time...time period. I feel as though after this last weekend our time may have started to go in fast forward. There are so many things to do and so many things to think about. Grace has school EVERY day, this hasn't been the case for the last two years. It's a good and bad thingin my eyes. Grace needs activity and although I have tried for the last 5 years to entertain her to the best of my ability, I'm tired and Noah requires even MORE attention than she does, so, I feel as tho...

Ummmm, So remember way back when I gave you the summer schedule? Yeah, it's in full force. Kids are crazy with lack of sleep and heat exhaustion. Mommy is going to wring kids necks at any moment. Daddy is having a mid-life crisis... Yikes I can't wait to fall.

I participated in a wedding over the holiday weekend with my mother. We sang two songs one of them being "The Rose". I have wanted to sing that song since high school. Now I have and can officially say...it's kinda hard. It worked out and the wedding was beautiful as you can see. More photos to come...

Well, here I am. What's been up you ask? ummm, I'm working more often and the computer just hasn't been as readily available or important lately, but I've read through a bunch of my favorite blogs and thought, "you know, I really should update mine." Okay, The steinkes have: graduated a 4 year old left kids and eric in saginaw while i traveled to wisconsin dropped of kids while eric and i went to a wedding in st louis had another fathers day traveled to muskegon for my beautiful cousins wedding shower watched as my husband was commisioned and installed as a called DCE for the LCMS it doesn't seem like much, but it's been SUPER busy and there's more to come. also, i've been neglecting my camera and feeling bad about it so i'm going to get it out I promise and have some pics soon. see you soon!

We swam in the pool a lot. We ate popsicles (a whole box) We squirted our cousins And they squirted back Oh the fun we had!

may 3rd becky & paul visit may 7th holland? may 16th time for a new cell phone (i'm thinking the palm pre...) memorial day weekend trip to muskegon & eric goes to indy june 11-13 wedding in st. louis july 14-21 mission trip and national youth gathering in new orleans july 29-august1 steinke brothers trip to nevins lake, mi (w/o kids!) august? camping? these are things i need to look forward to otherwise i won't make it through the day without loosing it...