Six Hundred Ninety-Four Thousand Three Hundred Minutes...

Six hundred ninety-four thousand moments so dear....How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee....

Or, 1 year, 3 months, 28 days, as our case may be! In our little yellow house, we measured these 68 weeks in glue and glitter and dress-up and paint and bugs and birthdays and ice cream. In library trips and books and pancakes and nature walks and good morning kisses. In movies and popcorn and baking and blocks and Little People and laundry and "see you in the morning light" said at bedtime. In these 482 days, Deb turned 30....and then 31, Scott turned 30, Emmerly turned 5 (and had a kuh-ick ass science birthday party, I might add, complete with periodic table cupcakes and science experiments galore!), Nola turned 2 with Minnie ears. Scott wore a tie 9 days out of 10, Nola broke her arm, Emmerly and Deb started a Daisy Troop, we went to Disney World and San Diego and San Francisco and Vegas too many times to count. We started homeschooling, we made new friends, Deb learned to sew, Em read her first book and took gymnastics and swim lessons and played soccer, Scott directed 150 kids and had amazing concerts, Nola fell in love. We went to 20 different nature centers, began a homeschool group with a bunch of other new homeschoolers, and read a LOT! We read amazing literature including Mary Poppins, Pinocchio, Ginger Pye, The Little Princess, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Little Mermaid, The Cricket in Times Square and The Princess and the Goblin, just to name a few. In these 11, 571 hours, we have laughed and cried and gotten boo-boos and bandaids and been at the bottom of Shanna's blog roll for too many days to count! Life just got in the way!

And now, a tiny glimpse into our 694,300 minutes...

So, here's to moving to the top of Shanna's blog roll, and to not letting another 694,300 minutes go by until the next post. Thanks for not giving up on us!!