Onto the Next Thing

Last night we had a small group dinner for Frank's office.  It provided a much needed excuse to really clean my house - at least the downstairs.  I wish my house always looked like it did when guests arrived through my door yesterday.  Alas, it doesn't!  In fact my house often looks like a hurricane has not just blown through but instead come and stalled for a few days.  Hard as I try it gets this way every so often.  I try to go to bed with a clean island but once one item gets forgotten it is easy to add another and then another and...way to quickly it looks like this!

Now let me tell you why I think my house gets this way.  We are all too often moving onto the next thing.  Sometimes I wish I could just sit back and enjoy a nice, quiet and clean house, but it just doesn't seem to be in my DNA.  Why couldn't I sleep late this morning, enjoy a cup of coffee, and linger over the newspaper?  Just couldn't do it...

Instead I was up before the sun to check off some things before heading out the door for a run and back in the door to prepare for Mary Frances' birthday celebration at school.  She had requested a cookie cake, and I just didn't get to it yesterday.  I'd never done it before, but I made my regular chocolate chip cookie recipe into a cake.  You know like the ones that come in the red boxes. It was tasty and easy.  I would do a few things differently, but I would definitely do it again  It got rave reviews from the kiddos.

While I was finishing up the cookie cake, my boys set out on their own backyard adventures.

And then they came inside for a reading break...

Mary Frances loved having us at school for lunch!

and a birthday song.

Before we know it this little lady will be walking through these doors as a kindergartner.

I love to see my little ones holding hands.