Farmhouse Country Style

There will be years for

cleaning and cooking......

for children grow up

when you're not looking.

I have been working on finishing up my son's big boy room.  It seems like only yesterday that we were making a nursery for him.  He is three now and the crib is gone and a big boy bed stands in it's place. 

Washing dishes the other day, my mind began to wander, as minds often do when dishes are washed.  I still cannot believe that 2010 is here, life is just moving so fast these days.  Is it just me or does each year fly by progressively faster and faster? 

Anywhoooo....my son decided that he wanted to play with me right then and there instead of waiting for me to finish doing dishes.  Ugh, three year old's can be so pushy, lol!  At first I was reluctant, I have so much to catch up on.  After thinking about how quickly the year had flown by, who was I kidding?  I knew that time wasn't going to wait for any man, not me and not my son, so I left those dishes, yup, right there in that sink.  Half washed dishes could wait, but my son would not.

 When he came back into the kitchen to ask one more time he didn't see me there at the sink....I was hiding.  He ran around the island calling my name and when he almost made it all the way around I jumped out from the pantry...BOO!  Laughing hysterically it turned into tickle time.  Tickle time turned into lego time and about an hour later we had all the matchbox cars spread from one end of the room to the next.

I looked around and we were sitting in a child's pile of toys!  It is so easy to get wrapped up in the day to day things, lists are made, calendars filled and priorities carried out.  This post is just because....because time moves by much too quickly and then we blink and our children grow.....

I want to remember our children's home....

the things that say children live here....

Blocks in the family room say children live here.....

My son makes me a mean playdoh "pa-s-getti meatballs",

I eat at his cafe at least once a week, lol. 

Books all over the house, even in the bathroom!

The kitchen table is often covered in crayons....

Even from the outside you can tell children live here..

Little overalls hanging on the line to dry in the warmer months....

After playing it was time for a craft....my son loves doing crafts. 

When it's time for mommy to paint signs, my son paints too. 

I could tell you what happened but you can just tell for yourself by the pictures.....

 

LOL.....what a blessing children are....

even when they (and every thing around them)

are blue from head to toe! 

I am off to build a castle by the fire now,

the vacuming can wait too!

Take care,

Dee