Just a few fun pics and some rambling rambles.

 Hey howdy hey. No much point to this post other than an urge to write something. I pulled a few pics just at random to share. Not much story behind them, just a day at the park.

Things are as insane around here as they normally are. Maybe a little more so. The last few weeks of the school year are always just nuts. Field trips, tests, tutors are much busier at work... everyone is just tired and stressed and all that stuff.


Thank you Lord for weekends. We try - try being the operative word - to take at least a few hours, usually after church, to put away the screens and just be outside. Sometimes we get junk food, other times just bread and bologna, and pick a park, and just chill.

Sometimes I really worry if we are doing right by our kids. Was it fair of any of them to be born into a big family? Is it fair to any of them that we've always had to struggle financially? Is it fair that we've always tried to be careful about what they watch on TV (not censoring so much as just choosing less f-words and less blood and gore)? Did we do wrong by raising them in the church, but at the same time encouraging them to figure out life and faith and reality for themselves?

I guess my older kids can answer that. I don't know if I want to know the answers.

But then we spend our day at the park. And I see them play and laugh and run and we get to talk. I see how much more intelligent they are than me. I see them interact with strangers and doing things to make others smile. I see them dog pile on each other, laughing so hard their sides start to hurt.

Then I don't worry so much.