It's the beginning of a new adventure! Many of you will have read my last blog, Almost Arctic: A Canadian Adventure which focused on our life as expats in Canada and know that the Evans family has moved back to the states and has started a new chapter! With this new chapter comes a new blog! I want to write about everyday life, it's high and lows, humor and sorrows. It is my hope that you are entertained and can find pieces of yourself in each post.
This first entry(that I have been trying to get out for months) comes on the heels of one of the biggest things that can happen in life, the beginnings of a new one! We welcomed our fourth child into the world on July 5 at 2:33 in the afternoon. Kenna Paige weighed in at 5 pounds 14 ounces and 19 inches long and has turned our world upside down since her arrival! We are so happy and blessed to have another beautiful and healthy daughter.
It has been almost two months and I cannot imagine life without her. I can imagine life without sleepless nights and hours of colic and screaming. Without epic tantrums and whining from our in love with the baby but not so in love with not being the baby, two year old and the endless demands of two older children with schedules that rival that of a CEO of a fortune five hundred company. I fantasize daily about a tropical island that is completely deserted, save me and a five star resort, of course....
School started this week and I have yet to decide if this is a blessing or a curse. I will say the house is slightly calmer with two less children in the house, but I have lost my helpers. If Aila needs juice, they fix juice, if the laundry is threatening to take over the couch, they fold laundry, not well mind you, but it's folded. School brings mornings of insane rushing to get everyone out the door and the crazed afternoons where we are shoving food into faces and clothes are flying as we get changed for the evenings of back to back activities. Then there is the mommy homework...I have filled out enough forms to rob a whole forest of it's trees. There are forms for your forms....
My schedule has quadrupled in the past two weeks and is only becoming more full as my volunteer commitments are commencing. There are not enough hours, hands or energy to do all that I need to do and maintain any sort of sanity. In my heart I know that it will all be fine and that we will find our rhythm and I will look back on this moment of weakness and think I was silly for worrying.... I hope that moment comes sooner than later.
In the meantime, life continues to march on, all over my house and my brain is absolutely fried. I must say, I couldn't be happier. I am blessed to have this crazy life and I am doing my best to enjoy the ride!
