I'd like a little well seasoned perspective...

I know i've been terrible at blogging. I've had a lot of different reasons, but you know how once you are behind, getting caught up feels more like climbing mount everest than updating a blog...but I think I may have found a place where little updates are do-able, and even fun. I've been looking for perspective, as a parent, as a home maker, family accountant, personal tutor, preschool teacher, not-so-gourmet chef of my own dine-in/take-out restaurant...you know the life of a stay at home mom of 4 lively kids and wife to a husband getting another degree while working full time 1 1/2 hours away from home every day , and finally i feel like i've found it....call it perspective, balance, what ever you want. But for the moment i'm there. My house is clean and has been kept such for weeks...that is a big deal with my kids still being allowed to play...they just help clean it up! The dishes are done, which means my husband is the happiest he's been in 8+ years, I've even had time to sing to, play with and read to my kids today. Success. I attribute a big chunk of it to my youngest being 19 months and for the first time since i started having kids, my youngest is that old, and i'm not pregnant. Instead i'm enjoying my four little kids and thinking about potty training for the last time and and being done buying diapers. So with my new found perspective, my clean house and my kids having more of my attention, i'm going to see if I can't blog small amounts more often...and for those of you who asked...i'm even going to post some pictures of our "new" house in the next couple of days! But for now here is one of my baby, who isn't much of a baby any more. It makes me happy just to have more time to hold her and let her give me big hugs around the neck and great big kisses...she still melts my heart every time I look at her...I've told people she is my little thank you gift from God for having one last baby, and I'm sure it's true. Who wouldn't melt having this darling little monkey call you MAMA!