House O' Sullivans

The past month and a half have been a blur. Here are a few of the things that have been happening:  In April, I spent a week in Cedar City watching Kristen's kids while she and Troy were living it up in San Diego. That episode marked the first major road trip for me solo with my kids and I am pretty proud of myself. Keeping the kids fed (including a nursing baby) and pottied over 260 miles of open road and then managing a household of nine kids for the week was epic stuff for me. I pretty much felt like a super hero when I was done. We've been busy the past couple of months with lots of family gatherings, temple trips, dinners, movie nights, family home evenings, and other events. Casey's parents left on an 18 month mission to Nauvoo earlier this month and Kay's family moved cross-country to Louisiana this week. Last Saturday marked the first official workday at Casey's parents house. All of the siblings and their families will come together once a month to...

This afternoon, I went outside to check on the kids.  Things had gotten pretty quiet, and as all mothers know, this is a possible signal that extreme chaos is brewing.  When I got into the backyard, I could hear Zeke talking quietly to himself and found him laying on his back underneath the cool of our big maple tree, gazing up into the sun dappled leaves, watching them flutter in the slight breeze.  I asked him what he was doing and he quickly replied, "Waxing, Mommy."  It took a bit more conversation and decoding to figure out what he was trying to say.  ("I'm relaxing, Mommy.") Zeke doing a bit of "waxing" under the maple tree I must say that today was a good day to "wax."