Evaluating

As I sit here in the floor, I'm watching Noelliah who is apparently bent on doing everything ASAP! She is 5 1/2 months old now and sweet & cute as sugar and I just had to take my cell phone away. She was on a spot in the floor and saw it and crawled her way over. She can pretty much get wherever she needs to go by rolling, crawling...you name it. This 5 month mark is quite a month of development for her. She can sit up for short periods of time, sit up from a laying position, grab things with her hands and maneuver them however she pleases, she has been holding her bottle for quite awhile (I think sometime after 3 months). We aren't pushing her to do any of it, but if she is laying in the floor off she goes. That's how we discovered she could crawl.

With all that in mind and the lightning speed at which it goes, I sit back and think I need to drink this all in. It has gotten faster with each child so Noe is blowing us away! I'm afraid I will wake up tomorrow and she will be walking.
I checked out the Fly Lady website the other day and while I'm not in the CHAOS (can't have anyone over syndrome state), I thought there were many great things there. That said, I was sitting and thinking about it later and thought do I really need an absolutely perfect house?? I came to my own conclusion that while I want a neat, organized, clean house, I would much rather spend as much time as I can soaking in the season of life in which I'm in which happens to include a lot of missed sleep and drool. I love it, I love them, I love being blessed like this.
Having a perfect "fly lady" house can happen at anytime, but my baby will only be this age for such a short short while. My 4 & 8 year old won't be these ages forever either and soon my 8 year old will find many other things to do rather than talk to me at night or hang out with us. My 4 year old diva will continue to hone her fashionista skills until she will dress and choose her own things(she already likes to do that now).

So, I don't always have time to blog or write on facebook or even much else. Why?? Because I want to enjoy this time and take pictures (even if they don't get made into Shutterfly books right away). Yes, I'm guilty...I just was able to look at some photos that my aunt so kindly took and sent me at Halloween (tonight). I'm glad she took them because I don't have hardly any. Um...that was like 4 months ago.

Life has been a whirlwind for several months and I doubt the merry-go-round will stop anytime soon. For now, I'm evaluating various things and living in the important and right now. I feel so blessed and I don't want to miss this!