Happy Sunday to you! We are working on getting back on our feet (literally), and navigating through life as a family of 8. I have so much to share about postpartum recovery, but for now a quick hello! Chiara is 3 weeks old tomorrow which has felt like one long blurry week. It was fall break for our kiddos, and it was a lot of juggling and surviving to be honest. There were lots of tears on my part. Today was actually the first day we navigated out all together. I was craving some quality time with them, and I knew they needed it from me too.  The weather went from 95 degrees to low 60 degrees in two days time, which gave us the last minute motivation to head up to the apple farm….

 

As most family adventures go, there are always some super stressful moments with two running in different directions, someone throwing a tantrum, or the third potty break in a row. You know how it goes. Gabe and I often look at each other with mutual exasperated expressions and comments like, why do we bother? But the truth is, we bother because it is worth building memory banks for our children. More often than not, they don’t remember the hard stuff….they talk about these days later down the road as if it was the best day ever. If it’s giving them a memory bank full of good days as a family to pull from throughout their lives, then it is 100 percent worth it for us as parents. Well….most of the time;)