It is almost time...

It is almost time to head back to life as a working mom :(.  There are so many things I am going to miss about being home every day with my babies.  I will miss our lazy mornings watching cartoons in "mommy daddy bed".

I am going to miss all of the snuggle time with my sweet pea.

Trips to the park after nap

Trips to the zoo

Fun outings with friends

Being able to go to things at Aaron's school

And just spending time with these sweet babies!

(We have made the most of October, these are all events from this month.)

Promises to myself

As I am trying to mentally wrap my mind around the fact that I will be heading back to work in a little less than a month I have been reflecting on my time off.  It has been the most amazing opportunity for me to get to spend the 4 almost 5 months focusing only on being a mommy and wife.  I would love to have this as my permanent job but realize that is not in the cards at this point, and according to my husband probably ever.  I love what I do but I also realize that it has the ability to very easily consume me and taint my time with my family.  I have always been the teacher who spent hours upon hours at school dedicating my time to my students.  When Aaron was born that all changed,  I had to learn how to be an extremely efficient worker.  It is important to me that I do the best I can at my job because those are other people's pride and joy but not let it take away time from my family.  I know life is about to get to an all new level of crazy, but I don't fully know the depth of it and won't until that first day back.  I want to try really hard to keep a balance between work, family work and family fun.  These years are years that will fly by and we will never get back so I want to make the most of them.  There are some things that I have taken time to do over these last few months that I have made a promise to myself I will make every effort to continue to do.  One of them is to take time each month to keep up to date on my scrap-booking and the other is to take time at lease once a month to keep up with this blog.  It has been a long time since we have been on here but I hope to fix that.  I do realize that there is no person in the world who is as interested in every detail of my family as I am, and I realize I may be the only one who reads these.  I am ok with that, I just want to record the sweet memories of our family so that I can go back and read them myself and share them with the boys as they get older.  I may not post them to facebook so if you find yourself at all interested, feel free to follow the blog.  I can't wait to look back in a year and read about our adventures.