A Perfect Day

It was a beautiful day.  Perfect in fact.  

We were all together.  Which, no matter where we are is in itself always perfect.  But today we were able to take advantage of the glorious sunshine and beautiful scenery.  

We looked at flowers.  We looked for catapusses.  (Caterpillars, if you were wondering.)  We didn't find any.  We climbed trees.  Skipped rocks and through rocks in the lake too.  We even kept our eyes out for snakes.  Luckily, we didn't find any of those either.  

Happy First Day Beauties

Summer went by so quickly.

Too quickly really.

We had lots of fun this summer, but today it was back to routine.  Back to books.  Back to schedules.  

New schedules, for everyone.

My Baby Girl is a Second Grader! 

I cannot even believe that it seems just yesterday I was bringing her home from the hospital, so small.  She is so grown up.  So independent.  Such a little lady now.  She loves her teacher!  Her friends.  She loves going to school.  She loves learning, loves being social.  I love that she loves it.  Where did my baby go?

Her first week duty assignment in class is the mail carrier.  She gets to deliver mail to her classmates mailboxes, and is VERY excited about this.

She was so excited for her little sisters' first day of preschool today.  She took them under her wing and helped prepare them for what to expect.  Instructing them on how to listen to their teacher.  What to do in certain situations.  It was so sweet.  I know in my heart she was thinking of them all day today.

Jocelyn sprung out of bed this morning.  More excitement on her face than I have ever seen.  She couldn't wait to begin the day.  She knew exactly what to do, as if she had done it 100 times, even though it was her first.  She was calm and ready and even smiled brightly for mommy's camera (which she never does willingly.)  Her Favorite part of the day today was craft time.  She was a little sad becasue she said she didn't get to do a "special job" but hopefully she will get one tomorrow.

Farrah was super excited too, although a bit more quiet with her excitement.  She was the first to get into her first day outfit of course, because her shirt had elephants on it.  She was anxious to show off her favorite animal to all her classmates and teacher.  She posed pretty and couldn't wait to get there.  Her "special job" for the day was to use her "big muscles" being the door holder.

Silvie was the most excited to go this morning.  She ran around the house this morning like a crazy girl!  She was ready before everyone.  When we arrived at school, she found the cubbies with all three of their names on them and pointed them out to Farrah and Jocey.  She also was the first to sign in.  Her "special job" was to be the line caboose and she said she was good at it.  She also reassured Jocelyn that she would have a job "next time."  

As I stood and observed for several minutes, watching them interact and become familiar with their surroundings, trying not to break into tears, Silvie walked up to me and said, "Mommy, I thought you were going to leave?"  I smiled.  I hugged her.  I wiped the tear from my eye and I said, "I am sweetie."  I kissed them all again, and I left...I left me babies on their very first day of preschool.

Two hours later, I picked them up, Daddy went too.  They had a wonderful morning.  They greeted us with smiles from ear to ear, and drawings and stories of all that they had spent their morning doing.

A few hours later, we went to pick up Chloe.  Where she greeted us with a smile from ear to ear.  Skipping down the sidewalk.  Happy as a lark.  "I love second grade!"

It's going to be a great year!

 On that note...

Mommy begins her classes on Monday morning...I hope I am smiling and skipping out of class too.

Playtime=Funtime

We hadn't been to the museum in a few weeks.  We usually go several times a month, and the summer has been a bit hectic.  So we decided to check things out after Chloe's ice skating performance Friday night.

Still the crowd favorite...City Grocery.

I wish we had a play room large enough to set up a spread like this complete with carts and cash registers, because the beauties would play there 24/7.  The absolutely love it.

Silvie's favorite thing the the money.  She takes it out of all of the cash registers and disperses it as she sees fit.  Giving each child in the store some.  It's really sweet that she shares, although I will add, she does keep the majority of the cash in her little hands.

In the pizzaria...as you can see...Silvie still has her "fat stack" of bills.  I think she may have smuggled some of them from the grocery store.

A new exhibit that opened since our last visit...the Music Room.

Glad this room is at the museum and not at our house.  Wowsa, it was loud in there.

Another new hot spot was located in the ball room (which is normally my most unfavorable room.  Golf balls flying at my children...no thanks.)  However, they have added a climbing wall.  The triplets found this to be fantastic!

Oops...Farrah just crashed the plane.

Our last stop of the evening was the wall of faces.  

It's sort of strange at first.  It tons of cut out facial parts.  Eyes, eyes, mouths, noses (you get the picture) and they have magnets on the back.  You can move them around and make all sorts of fun faces with them.  Normally the girls love the funny face wall...read: they were tired and it was time to go home for the night.  This is where their normal arguing picked up.  

All in all we have 2+ hours of happy playtime.

We LOVE the museum.

Camper Chloe

Chloe spent the last week in her skates at Ice Skate Camp.

She had a fabulous time and learned so much.  She improved so much during this week.  She would have just slept there if we would have allowed her to.  It was a week long all day camp.  They worked on skills and practicing techniques.  As well as learning a routine that they were exited to show off on Friday afternoon.

Chloe was ready to go!  She said her heart was beating really fast because she was so nervous!

She did fantastic.  Said she only forgot one part.  I assured her that we didn't even notice.  That made her smile.

The triplets were so excited to watch Chloe's performance on ice.  They watch her every Saturday morning, however, THIS WAS TO MUSIC.  They were tickled to be in the front row.  They kept calling out her name.  "Go Chloe, Go Chloe!"  They watched without missing a second, so proud of their big sister.

My Beauties. My Heart.

The Simple things in life.

The ones that are right before our eyes.

The ones that grace our hearts with their innocence.

The ones we spend minutes and days and weeks with, but sometimes forget to take those extra minutes to stop and enjoy all the special details that those seconds hold.  The special details that pass so quickly.  The details that once they are gone...are mere memories in our hearts and minds.  

My heart and mind are filled with those special memories.

My beautiful babies are growing so fast.

I look at them in complete awe of how fast they are changing.  Taking in the world around them.

Matt and I have held many difficult decisions upon our shoulders over the past several months.

I have been struggling the the increased time the I find I am away from my beauties with work, and derby.  I miss my girls.  I miss my family.  I am missing my girls.  I am missing those seconds, those details that I can never get back.  

When Chloe was born I left the outside working world, and began my career as a stay at home Mommy.  I loved it.  Everything about it.  I continued that throughout the triplets (almost) three years and then began working outside the home.  We needed some extra income, and with Matt working a better shift, the time was right.  A part time job, turned into an almost full time one for the last year and a half.  After much discussion between us, and lots of worry and tears...my children, come first to me.  I have left my outside the home job.  Because I need to be at home with them, and they need me too.  I am missing those seconds that I cannot get back.  I am not willing to watch those seconds disappear anymore.  I can't.  

My beauties are my world.  My heart.  I blink...they grow...I blink again...they will be grown.

My mind feels clear.  I have made the right decision.

Matt supports the decision we have made as a partnership.  We will make it.

I am ecstatic to get back the Mommy that I was before my life became too busy with too many other things.

I have a clear focus.

I am a Mommy.  To four amazing, beautiful little girls.  They need their Mommy.  I am a wife.  To a man who is my hero and my heart.  I am a woman.  A wonderful mother and wife.  There is enough of me for many different things.  But my focus is my family.  

My family is my heart, my soul, my world.  Without them I am nothing.

"Happiness is a Journey.  Not a Destination."

They reminded me of this today.  I am thankful for that reminder.

I love you with my entire heart.

Sleep Well Sweet Beauties.

~Mommy~

Happy Fathers Day...a little early

To my husband.  The father of my beautiful little girls.  My hero.  My everything.

To the man I married.  To the man you have become.  To the man you evolve into with each passing day.

We love you.

Happy Father's Day.

The lyrics to this song touch my heart so close.  

My heart melts every time I hear it because it perfectly describes Matty with his four little girls.

Their new found thing to do together is fish...I can see the meaning of this song in his eyes. With every worm he puts on their hooks.  With every squeal of excitement they let out when they know it's time to go in Daddy's boat.  He loves them more than words can express.  And he is their hero...every single day.

Daddy's little girls, wrapped tightly around his finger heart.

I’m lost in her there holdin’ that pink rod and reel
She’s doin’ almost everything but sittin’ still
Talkin’ ‘bout her ballet shoes and training wheels
And her kittens
And she thinks we’re just fishin’

I say, “Daddy loves you, baby” one more time
She says, “I know. I think I got a bite.”
And all this laughin’, cryin, smilin’ dyin’ here inside’s
What I call, livin’

And she thinks we’re just fishin’ on the riverside
Throwin’ back what we could fry
Drownin’ worms and killin’ time
Nothin’ too ambitious
She ain’t even thinkin’ ‘bout
What’s really goin’ on right now
But I guarantee this memory’s a big’in
And she thinks we’re just fishin’

She’s already pretty, like her mama is
Gonna drive the boys all crazy
Give her daddy fits
And I better do this every chance I get
‘Cause time is tickin’
(Yeah it is)

And she thinks we’re just fishin’ on the riverside
Throwin’ back what we could fry
Drownin’ worms and killin’ time
Nothin’ too ambitious
She ain’t even thinkin’ ‘bout
What’s really goin’ on right now
But I guarantee this memory’s a big’in
And she thinks we’re just fishin’

She ain’t even thinkin’ ‘bout
What’s really goin’ on right now
But I guarantee this memory’s a big’in
And she thinks we’re just fishin’
Yeah, aww, she thinks we’re just fishin’
We ain’t only fishin’
(This ain’t about fishin’)