I'm back....and feeling a little sappy

I love staying home with my kids.  I really do.  I always dreamed I would have kids and be able to have a husband who would provide for us and want me to stay home with our kiddos.  Of course a perk to SAHMs is to do the fun mommy things.  I always loved packing up my kids and going to bible studies, play groups, the mall and the all yummy Mickey D's. {{ick}} Give me Chick-fil-A any day.  Oh, let me tell you,  I could open my stroller and load a kid in a nano second.  I was always ready for an adventure with my friends and their littles.

I have been blessed many times over and I thank God for the times I got to rock my babies while watching The Young and the Restless.  Of course, when they were little babies it was a crazy madhouse at the Sab's.  This house was wacky messy!  The kitchen looked like Rachel Ray had been in there and forgot to clean up after herself, the bathroom needed some much needed scrubbing bubbles and the laundry...well, let's not even go there.  All day it was crazy and just when I thought that I just couldn't take it anymore, there was bedtime.  There was something about the bath time and bedtime routine. It was so sweet! I loved those moments when you tuck them in bed and they smell so good.  You snuggle for a bit and then hear the sweetest prayers in the world.  Makes my heart swell.  Then when they were all tucked in bed and fast asleep (fingers crossed) then I could sit on the couch for a minute, watch my recorded DVR shows, drink my hot tea, snuggle with my hubby and think.... thank goodness that all is good in the world. 

Now, years later I look at my precious kids and realize the babies that I carried on my hip all over town are long gone. Now I have one sweet "wanna-be" pre-teen and one awesome sweet teenager.  And these years that are upon me make me nervous.  Just thinking of Reid driving down the main Interstate in this big 'ole city makes me want to puke.  I love that Reid still needs me for things and that he still tells me he loves me.  I love that Macy still is my shadow and doesn't like me out of her sight.  She still needs me to lay with her, to tuck her in and to say those sweet prayers.  We always read nightly devotionals and I hope that never stops.  I hope my kids have sweet memories....

I miss not having babies around but I love this new season of my life....the all-fun teenage season.  It's here and y'all, I embrace it! Bring.it.ON!  I still have a wacky messy house, a crazy kitchen with dishes to the ceiling, a dirty bathroom and laundry out the wazoo.  But its ok.  It's a crazy life, but its my life and I wouldn't trade it for the world.