Random Thoughts...

First, no, I do not have a favorite child... I just have one that stands still a little bit longer than the other one does!

Second, I'm not sure if this post, yet again, is really going to have too much that follows a single train of thought. I'm finding that to be an issue lately. With the kids, with Jim, with my friends... I'll start a story or saying something and I'll get sidetracked and *boom* I'm off to something else. Then I'll be laying in bed, reflecting on the day and think "hey, I never finished that story!" I'm really not sure what that's all about, stress, hormones, getting old, having too many thoughts coursing through my brain at any given moment. I'm not sure. I'm still kind of feeling like I'm in that "fog" so we will see if that lifts in time.

Third, I've had several people ask me if we have anything planned for Eli's due date. We have thought about doing a little bit but then again we don't have a due date that really stuck in our minds. It kept getting moved around and with R coming 3 full weeks early we realized how "general" the due date is. So, aside from the few little things I have planned, simple things really, just little add ons to the garden. I'm thinking that what we'll do is a butterfly house for the kids to watch for several weeks - K has been bugging (haha!) me about doing the butterfly thing and since they had it at the pre-school, the requests have been more frequent. Not begging, just nice sincere requests. We will then let the butterflies go in Eli's Garden. I know they won't stick around and that's ok but I figure that solves a couple of issues that I've been dealing with. Namely, the due date issue. We'll let the butterflies go when they're ready, sometime around the end of July. I'll let God and the butterflies determine what day we let them fly.