A List for This Mother's Day

Mercy sakes alive. It's Friday afternoon and we've survived another week so GO US. 

It's been a good week, but a long one all the same because HOW MANY MORE WEEKS OF SCHOOL DO WE HAVE?? In an effort to preserve a smidgelet of what my life is like in this current season we're in, I'm compiling (an incomplete!) list of things I've had to ground the kids from or take away from them recently. It is below. 

carrots
board games
toothpaste
church pew pencils
garden spades
blankets
popcorn
puzzles 
EACH OTHER
bacon
leather furniture
water hoses
outfit changes 
construction paper
jelly
teeth flosser picks
dirt
clementines
drinking straws
balloons
forts of any kind
piggy banks 
night lights 
crayons
tape
Rhino, our hamster
salt and pepper shakers
light switch priveledges
talking
singing
humming
umbrellas
hair elastics
crayon peeling priveledges 
books
socks
song books 

That should cover through about Thursday of this week. Parenting is fun, and kids are an amazing blessing, but it is mind numbing and a refining fire at the same time. So to all the Moms out there who can compile a list similar to mine- Happy Mother's Day, friend! You're doing a fantastic job and your kids are amazing and YOU are amazing. 

I'm so proud of you!! Lots of hugs and lots of coffee, ~Katie