random...

so i've been meaning to blog for weeks now and life is just flying by me.  nothing and everything is going on all at once and i find myself wishing, hoping, and dreaming that life slows down and i get my act together.  1st grade is giving us a run for our money for lots of different reasons. jackson is amazing and unique and wonderful and complicated...i want to be there for everything and help him succeed at everything he does. soccer and fall baseball are in full swing and keep me crazy trying to remember which kid has which practice which day of the week. jackson started piano lessons and LOVES it! i have yet to find my desk under an unforgivable pile of mail and papers.  there's laundry to do, lunches to make, floors to mop, children to raise, husband to connect with, and i somehow am not quite making it all work. i browse some blogs for inspiration and sanity only to feel even less adequate when i stare at my unfinished to do list.  today i treated myself to some yard therapy and pulled weeds, mulched, spruced up for fall, and just enjoyed God's beauty on a glorious fall day.  I will try to get back and update some more...upload some pictures, and just breathe.r