A little peek

I've read a few blogs lately with fun posts about being real.  So I though I might attempt one myself.  We do have a lot of fun, and my posts do generally reflect life around here, but we do have a lot of life filling in around the posts.

• It is loud around here.  Like, really loud.  At any given time, there is someone talking - and afraid they aren't being heard, they are talking at full volume.  And at the same time, there are usually several other somebodies talking too.  Added to that, we have 6 kids taking piano lessons, so therefore taking turns practicing all morning.  And some classes are DVD or listening to CD lessons... And that is why I guard the hour of quiet time we have scheduled for every afternoon. And while they are all quiet, I sit and enjoy a snack and a glass of pop and relish the quietness.

• We still don't have night time figured out.  Once in a while, everyone wakes up in the morning in the same place as they went to bed, but more often, I wake up on the couch, Todd in the recliner and 2 or 3 kids in our bed.  We sleep wherever we can get sleep. 

• No matter how many times a day we run through the house straightening it out, a cyclone follows behind us. 

•  Sometimes we arrive somewhere and someone is missing shoes.  Or has two shoes for the same foot.  Or has  a pair of shoes that actually belong to a sibling.  Or has a shoe from two different pairs. 

•  We recently were at an event and when we were ready to leave I noticed that Lincoln was wearing Garrett's pants and Garrett was wearing Lincoln's

• Too often, when Todd calls to say he is on his way for lunch or supper, the girls and I look each other and say, uhhhh what IS for supper???? (The menus are helping with that one though.)

• We sometimes have 7 or 8 or more loads of laundry waiting to be folded and put away.  And that many more waiting to be washed. And then we go on a laundry marathon.

 And now I had better get back to the chaos that is life around here.