I love this picture - it's not complete though, because their spouses and children are not pictured here and they are an intricate part of our family unit. Lucky us. But for a moment I have to say - DANG... this is one beautiful moment - and YOU KIDS are loved and beautiful. But sometimes they get put in the big picture and the little intimate moments before we became a much larger family are sometimes forgotten. This is the original 'us' which brings the most touching moments back to my heart. Evidence that we didn't kill them is also important.... Proof that they all had braces.... also an excellent observation... but it's what you don't see that is the most important to me.... their spirits. In a world where they could be anyone they wanted to be - they became so much more than that in so many ways. I see now - after 30 years of parenting - that every single moment of our lives together are all wrapped up in to one eternal concept - one that will always remain "A Family". What you don't see here are their hearts and souls - I'm not sure the picture is big enough for that. Good human beings are so hard to find. But Hubbie and I found 4 amazing ones in all of the yelling and screaming and grounding and - oh wait - moments of pure bliss. Life would not be what it is today unless the big guy upstairs put this puzzle together for us. I can't let another day pass without telling my family how much I love them - and I know that when we were teased for having 4 kids in a world where some want none - I have to just kinda say.... read 'em and weep. THIS is God's plan right here.... and when you get these things... he sends you these things....
and bits and pieces of perfection like these...
Life - is as beautiful as the people you surround yourself with.
I think I love my surroundings.
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