But Don't You Love to Hear Them Laugh?

Last night, dh gave each of the girls a glow in the dark necklace as he was putting them down for bed (he always puts the girls down every night!). I had heard him say his normal "good night girls, I love you" after he has finished tucking them in, telling them a story and praying with them.

Then the giggles began.

They started out kind of muffled. Like they were trying so desperately not to laugh. Then they burst out loudly, as if they could not contain it any longer or they would burst!

I came upstairs and asked hubby if they were supposed to be asleep. He said "Yeah, but don't you love to hear them laugh?" It's so true. I LOVE TO HEAR MY CHILDREN LAUGH! We went in and gave them five more minutes of laughter and then it was time for bed.

I thought about a show I recently saw. It was one where the mommys switch homes for two weeks. I didn't get to see the whole thing (I am not even sure if the show is around anymore). But there was a mom of two children swapping with a mom of five children. All I saw was when they came home. The mom of five was commenting after being home on what she had missed while she was away. She said "the noise." I had to think about that. The mom of two children returned home to silence. The mom of five returned home to lots of laughter and talking with each other and LOVE!

I notice that too. When one of the children are out with Daddy. It is just too quite around here!!! I gotta have all three of them PLUS Daddy and myself chattering away and laughing away. I LOVE THE NOISE!!

Faithbooking

I finally added my first page of my fathbook to my online gallery. It really is hard to document your spiritual journey. The first page was supposed to be about how you came to be a Christian. The next page is about baptism. I haven't done that one yet. I recently found pictures of my baptism. I was baptised when I was born (as all Catholics are), but after coming to know Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I felt that I needed to be baptised of my own choice to show my commitment to Him.

Faithbooking is not new to scrapbooking. But it is new to me. I think it will be a wonderful addition to my albums. A story for my children to know of my faith (and I will also be adding my prayers for each of my children).

I was never really interested in scrapbooking until my first daughter was born. It was then that I realized I wanted to capture every moment/thought/feeling. :) Something I miss from my mom. She has lots of pictures (good for her), but no stories with them. I really need to get together with her and get her to write down on sticky notes about each picture and then put the sticky on top of the picture (which is protected by the plastic cover in those magnetic albums). Then at least we have somewhere to start.

I recently read a formula for a quick and coordinated album (taken from Creative Keepsakes Magazine):
1 neutral colored cardstock for background
1-2 colors of cardstock for matting
1-2 types patterned papers for borders and wide mats (you can also blow up pictures to use as these mats - one of the nice things about digital scrapbooking)
1-2 types of page accents
1 font, set of letter stamps or type of letter stickers for titles

[I]A Side Note: you may have noticed I changed my name from my real name to "P" and now to lvg4him. Hubby felt that we needed to be a bit more private on the web.[/I]

So Little Time

Thanks to those of you who have prayed (and are praying). They still have no idea what is wrong and I am supposed to be called sometime this week to set up even more tests. Your prayers are truly appreciated. I realyl want to know what is causing this because it looks like my little two year old might be suffering from the same thing.

With tests and packing (and digi scrapping - trying to catch up on two years of not scrapping!) and cleaning and more packing, I have had little time to post here (or my other boards or reading all your wonderful blogs). I have however been able to enjoy my children!! I am thankful that I am not forgetting THEM in all of this. Yesterday we spent time outdoors (all three girls are outdoorsy, which will make moving to the country easier). They would have stayed out all day EVERY day if I let them. (Just worry about sun damage and all - even with the sun screen.)

I want to leave you with this WONDERFUL article I read about a year ago. It came back into my life recently (and I am so glad it did). It is about APRON EVENAGELISM. You haven't heard of it? Well, this is a MUST read. Even my little girls have started wearing their aprons again (waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too cute!) and I am on the look out for some patterns to make more! I hope it blesses you as much as it has blessed me!