Sentimental. Grateful. Peaceful. Joyful. A few words which remind me of this Mother's Day. We felt Natalie needed one more Sunday at home so Dan took the older three to church and I got to sit and enjoy my baby. I feel so blessed to have this little one in our family and actual quite sad I won't be doing this again. Other families are different, but this is our magic number. I keep telling Natalie we want to end on a good note. I caught this wonderful smile of hers on camera. She is a big fan of attention from Mom and Dad. Less of a fan of the mauling she sometimes receives from her extremely loving older siblings, especially the one that prayed for her.
We have a new Sunday tradition of visiting the new house after returning home from church and eating lunch. On Mother's Day we took pictures of everyone in their new rooms. Michelle wants to have a pink and purple ballerina room instead of a Rapunzel room because Mother Gothel is a bad guy. That's all right. Pinterest can deal with theme changes lickity split.
Danny enjoys picking up random items the buildings leave behind, much to parental chagrin. He's sticking with the Disney/Pixar Cars theme, but we want to add in elements from their new Planes movie when it comes out August 9 as well. (I am way too excited for that movie because the trailers make me feel like it will have the best from both Cars movies combined.)
Kaelah has never deviated from her rainbow room idea. Once she has something in her head, it stays there. I think her room will be the hardest to pull together without it looking tacky, but I have a feeling as long as there is a big rainbow on a wall somewhere and new bedding, she'll be happy.
Confession time: we were all getting impatient. There were mistakes made that had to be ripped out and done over. So many, in fact, that the framers were fired and new ones hired on. Rumor has it no one has ever chose the options we have put together before, so we have the guinea pig/experimental house. I guess no one has ever wanted 4 bedrooms and a play room upstairs before... or had 4 children before. Ah hem. I'm just grateful Dan can visit frequently and has that attention to detail and a great memory to make sure things are done right. And the new site manager and the sales agent have been great so our fears have diminished greatly since Mother's Day. Having a house built is, I think, harder than buying, but we are so in love with it already that all frustration will be totally worth the trouble in the end. There is no other floor plan in the world that would make me move away from our current home. Exciting stuff!
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