These just made my day, and sums up what I have difficulty conveying to some of my non-married, kid-free friends beautifully.

"Homemaking--being a full-time wife and mother--is not a destructive drought of uselessness but an overflowing oasis of opportunity; it is not a dreary cell to contain your talents and skills but a brilliant catalyst to channel creativity and energies into meaningful work; it is not a rope for binding your productivity in the marketplace, but reins for guiding your posterity in the home; it is not an oppressive restrain of intellectual prowess for the community, but a release of wise instruction to your own household; it is not the bitter assignment of inferiority to your person, but the bright assurance of the ingenuity of God's plan for complementarity of the sexes, especially as worked out in God's plan for marriage; it is neither limitation of gifts available nor stinginess in distributing the benefits of those gifts, but rather the multiplication of a mother's legacy to the generations to come and the generous bestowal of all God meant a mother to give to those He entrusted to her care."

-Dorothy Kelley Patterson

No real updates from me, life goes on as it always does. Callie's getting bigger, Peter's busy with work, somehow I seem to have NO time and yet get nothing done at all. And we keep chugging along. Getting increasingly pregnant, and increasingly NERVOUS about trying to get used to a routine with TWO babies instead of just one. I know I'll manage one day at a time, but it is quite a daunting thought. Thus, I try not to think too hard about it!

My goals for the upcoming months are as follows:

1) Spend more time in daily bible study 2) Keep a cleaner house (oh geez, writing it down makes it so official) 3) Spend MUCH less time on the computer or watching TV 4) Finish my current UFO's, including my mom's sock that I owed her two Christmas's ago 5) Try a little harder to NOT be a frumpy housewife 6) Not laugh my ass off at the list I just compiled and give up before even starting.

Yeah, wish me luck!