Comforts of Home

I decided last night that I am going to try to blog on more of a daily basis, or at least as close to a daily basis as I can get. This sounds like a cop out but it has really gotten hard to pull out the camera and take pictures as often as I'd like at home because I have learned through experience that the third child is the hardest. Not in a bad way, just a really busy way. It can be tough to clean house, get lunches made, make healthy breakfasts, homeschool my little preschooler, make supper, and try my best to keep Colton on a decent schedule, plus pull out a camera and snap shots of it all...but I'm going to do my best to try. My original plan for tonight was to snap some shots of us making my DELICIOUS banana bread but I had to rush through it because Colton got cranky and then Rob (hubby) pulled it out of the oven without telling me and the kids dug in and ate the whole top of the loaf. Shame on them, but it's so tasty who could blame them? Well, I happened to watch some of the news and see the whole Syria disaster playing out and my topic changed in a matter of seconds. It really scares me. Not only does the thought of more war, more Mommies and Daddies leaving kids to be shipped out to fight in a strange land that we're not used to for people that we don't know scare me but the thought of the pure terror those people, the children and parents especially, are going through scares me the most. I simply cannot imagine what that's like. I cannot imagine how terrifying that would be to see fear in your child's eyes and not be able to comfort them and tell them honestly that it will all be ok. I cannot imagine having to try to find a place to hide, or having to teach my children what to do if they are attacked at gunpoint, as one mother on the news said she had done. I can't imagine and don't want to imagine and am so extremely thankful to have been born in a country where I have never had to realize those fears. The only difference between some of us and some of them is where we were born. It's hard for me to fathom. I'm so thankful that tonight I can lay my babies down in peace and quiet and not hear any gunfire or screaming. I'm thankful that my greatest worry tonight is what I'll cook for dinner tomorrow. I'm so thankful that I live in America. Hug your babies and don't forget how blessed we all are.

So honestly I cheated on Graydon and Ella's photos because I took them last month at the park but Colton's was a legitimate photo done today. See? I really did pull my camera out!