Brothers and Sisters

Hi all. 

I am enjoying my summer break oh so much.

I love this feeling of no school, and not needing to wake up every morning with a mental list of all the school work that needs to get done, instead I wake up to subbing, gardening, cleaning, running errands, cooking, little organizational projects around the house, etc. and I'm loving it. 

So I wanted to post a few pictures from the last few days...

The Mother's Day flowers we got for our Mom. She loved them of course and I have to say that these ones the boys picked out themselves at the florist shop. Not a bad job. The combination was really nice.

Speaking of brothers...as much as I'd love to have a sister around my age, I love having brothers. I grew up with 4 brothers for a while, before the little ones came along, and of course I always said why couldn't one of these 4 be a sister to me?!  Now though, I don't see it any other way. Brothers are very useful ;) and I'm sure they'd say the same about me. They are so much fun and even though I mention "if I had a sister my age..." I am content with brothers. They are helpful in a way that sisters can't always be-like with my many car situation, etc, or tell me if my outfit looks good. Maybe God knew that if Lena came along sooner, I just wouldn't be able to handle it, so He gave brothers to surround me. Here are the boys eating lunch Sunday.

And now, speaking of sisters. God chose to send me a sister who wants to have anything and everything that she can get her hands on. I think I mentioned she was dying for color duct tape. I mean she just NEEDED it. So, of course, off we went to buy it for her. It's unbearable listening to her ask for it. She said she would make these flower pens and sell them on ebay. Lol. In the picture you can see one bent-well that was a straw she used, not a pen. I think she does them very well though! Except, she made like 5 and moved on from it. I told her the other day, was it really worth begging for it, to only make 5 flowers. Yes she said. I didn't argue. This also reminds me-the other day she came home saying she NEEDS to go to Wilson Farms to buy some kind of candy. The entire evening she just begged and begged. As I said earlier, God must have known I wouldn't be able to handle a sister like this to be born close in age to me.

Years went by, and God saw that I needed yet another sister whose character we are just beginning to learn. This little one is so independent, and although she is the baby in the family, sure does not act like one! Today by the way, she said she only loved "Lesya and Mamochka"-as she likes to say. So, the legos, you ask? Well lets say I recite Philippians 2:14 as I go about cleaning them over and over again. I always thought that I would be strict and make the kids clean up after themselves, etc etc. I am not like that at all. I just do it these days-they too have plenty of time where they have to clean up the legos. And, yes we do have the kids clean after themselves but judging by the amount of "messes" they make, they'd be cleaning all day! Also, you can't constantly chase after the little kids to throw their clothes in the laundry, it's just not realistic.

I promised Andrew LEGO city to add to their collection, and so I wanted to buy Leah something too. I was going to get her legos for little girls but thought she's still too young. I bought her polly pocket "dollies" as she says, instead. I remember when Lena was little she had sooo much, so I thought this would be cute for Leah. She loved them and instead that I take a picture of her little set up :) Boy did I get lots of hugs and kisses when I brought all that home. Happiness can be found in material things ;)

Blessings,

Lesya