Happy Valentine's Day!

We are gearing up for a wonderful Valentine's Day!!! We are moving!!! Yay!!! Everything is pretty much packed, the bed is taken down....I am so ready to finally be able to move. We are excited about what the Lord is doing in our lives.

Today, amidst packing and other things, Jeff, Annabelle, Andrew and I all made Valentine cookies and decorated them with strawberry icing. We also painted Christmas ornaments (my mom gave them to me at Christmas) for Grammy and Pap. They love helping me and Jeff cook, clean, whatever we are doing they want in on it too. I am so blessed to have my family. Annabelle is such a sweet girl. She loves dress up dresses and having tea parties. She also loves to play on her Dora computer that Santa gave her at Christmas. Andrew is such a little man. He loves to climb all over Jeff no matter where we are. He loves to play with tools. He helped Daddy take down our bed today. Jeff helped him use some of his tools to take care of the job. It was cute. I wish that I would have taken a picture.

It's been hard on me lately to spend quality time with the kids. I have either been packing or cleaning or just trying to get the house ready here lately. It seems I am always cleaning just in case someone wants to come and view our house. God has really been convicting me that cleaning and other things are not as important as spending time with my children and playing with them. I am missing out on them growing because of cleaning. How ridiculous is that. My prayer and hope is that starting this weekend, I will cut out a huge block in my schedule just to play with my kids. I want to love them like God loves me. I want to show them that Mommy loves them and likes to play with them and be with them. I want to be a better Mommy.

On a side note, a church member just dropped off my very first sewing machine. I am hoping to make the kids some curtains for their new room and playroom. I am so excited!!!

I hope that each one of you have a wonderful Valentine's day. I hope that it is a day filled with love from family and friends!