Summer time.

Ahhhh…..it looks good on these kiddos!

We opened the pool for its first swim on Memorial Day!

I am trying to settle into to this new season of life!

The one where I fill three lunch coolers every morning, send my hubby and two oldest off to work, and spend the day here with the four youngest.

Would someone please tell me how that happened?!?

Chad and I are the new daytime team and doing our best to keep up with everything!

Including training the cutest puppy on the planet!

We have been doing some summer school in the mornings!

These kiddos LOVE “school”!

We have a lot of fun!

My need for a creative outlet blessed the littles very much, because I made new busy bags for them!

We also practice very simple things!

Tate and Eliza would do these things ALL day long if I let them!

We have been doing a unit study with the Little House on the Prairie books!

After I heard about audible on a podcast I listened to, I checked into it.

But it cost money that I wasn’t willing to spend!

So I looked on You Tube and found The Little House in the Big Woods audiobook for free!

I love to read aloud to the kiddos – it is one of my favorite things to do!

Having You Tube do it for me gives me precious time to run around and get some necessary things done!

I have been taking the kiddos to the library weekly.

We love books!!

Addie loved on the littles before work this morning by reading to them!

We worked on Plan B for our move over the long weekend.

We are looking into building our next home!

We took Lane with us as our special helper when we met with the builder on Monday morning!

We have designed a factory built home, and really like it!

Now we will be still and wait on the Lord!

We wonder if He will see fit to make this plan come to fruition!

We have been blessed with rain showers almost everyday this past week.

Not having to water the garden saves lots of time!

I took this photo while at a stop light on the way home from town Tuesday evening.

It was not raining – it was POURING.

I prayed out loud most of the way!

The roads were flooding, traffic was crazy, and it was slow going!

Other than all of those things…..and meals, floors, laundry, littles, laundry, meals, floors….did I mention littles?…..we have also been walking through a new chapter of our health journey.

Several of us have taken Craniobiotic Treatments to help our bodies heal from many different things we have going on – the biggest thing being chronic Lyme disease.

We take these treatments here.

There has been loads of healing going on around here for sure!!

We STAND AMAZED as we watch the Lord bless our efforts with these treatments!

That said, I personally started my treatments almost eleven weeks ago, and had the farthest to come out of all us.

It has been far from easy these last eleven weeks, but the Lord has allowed every need to be met, every commitment to be fulfilled, and each of us to be able to be what we needed to be when we needed to be it!

There has just not been energy for extra things for awhile!

I am starting to feel AMAZING – in a way I never thought possible – and so are some of our kiddos!

Getting choked up typing this – so let’s move on!

Feeling good meant a girls night out for some shopping and coffee!

Shop we did! Drink coffee we did!

Did my heart SO good to be with my girls!

I texted Blake this photo to show Grant, because Grant gave me a coffee gift card for Mother’s Day!

Thanks for the coffee on girls night out, Grant!

So thankful for this season of life!!