Glorious Mornings

Mornings around here (after the older girls are off to school and the initial rush is over) are truly blissful. Lexa is calm, and plays independently really well, Spencer sleeps in, I can usually get a run in before Craig goes to work, and, if I am feeling so inclined, I can actually get a decent amount of things done before naptime.

Life after school is a different story. Tempers and messes explode, the volume quadruples, and my stress-level basically peaks until bedtime. So we'll just focus on wonderful mornings for now so I don't have to start stressing about messes and fights that haven't actually happened yet.

I love what a kind and dutiful big sister Alexa has turned out to be. And also that Spencer can't talk yet and tell her to stop bossing him around. (I think that might be the trouble when the other girls spend time together: they can all talk.) Thus far, Spence takes her direction like a champ, though I suspect the winds will change once he can voice himself more articulately.

Here's to the limited number of peaceful, pre-verbal mornings that stretch out before me!