Tent Fun

One day at the end of rest time I entered the girls' room to find this:

Grace had constructed her own tent out of a sheet & diaper boxes. She even used her books stacked on Titus' changing table to keep up the sheet. She was asleep inside!

So, later in the week they asked for help making a tent. With an extra sheet and some chip clips we were able to make a tent big enough for two.

Before nap I crawled in with them to read them a chapter from our American Girl book. This is a new tradition before nap/bedtime of reading a chapter at a time. Grace is LOVING this so we have already completed 2 of the 3 books we purchased.
Jeremy went in at the end of rest to find them both asleep snuggled up in their tent- so precious! Along with their doll collection and various other treasures.

Oh, the joys of childhood to be tiny enough to sleep in a homemade tent and imagine it is so much more!

Grace's Cake

Here is the cake we found that gave us the starting point for our ideas. Grace's cake of course had to be purple instead of pink. But, we used some of the general ideas. My mom took the pictures of her blowing out her candles so I will have to add those later. I used the laminator I got for Christmas to laminate a picture of Ruthie I printed. (much easier than icing or an edible transfer). This was my first try using Kristina's chocolate fondant and I LOVED it. I will definitely be using it for future birthdays.

An actual glimpse...

The official name of my blog is "Glimpses of God from the Humiston Home." (I know its a mouthful) However, lately it has been more of a "Baby book/Scrapbook of the Humiston Family Year O' Fun," than a chance for me to share what is in my heart.

Why, you ask?

Well, things have been a bit crazy for say oh, about the last year or so at my house. Since I have transitioned to 3 kids I rarely sit down at nap time anymore unless it is to fold laundry. And I also gave birth to a chid who has no interest in playing with toys. He'd much rather fish in the toilet, unload my kitchen cabinets, empty the dishwasher, & get into his sister's art supplies. Thus, its hard to get much done that requires thinking while he is awake. (Don't worry too much I can declutter, do dishes, and oversee laundry without thinking these days.)

Actually that precious little boy I speak of is sleeping in my lap as I peck out this post because due to two consecutive awful viruses his mama (opps, I mean sleep schedule) is currently on life support.

When we first transitioned to three children our family had zeroed out our calendar. Due to the vocational changes in our life we had VERY FEW church or social commitments. And I naively remember thinking, "This isn't too bad. I think the transition to 2 was much harder." And then we found this amazing church and made some awesome friends and I've felt overwhelmed ever since. I'm sure it also has something to do with the fact that I joined the children's ministry team, we joined a small group, Grace started Kids Choir, we started attending Family Quest, I started selling jewelry for Inspiranza, we began mentoring a few students, and we've been trying to figure out how to get started with an adoption. Oh, and I declared it the "year of fun" before we send Grace to kindergarten. There's actually more but it makes me tired to list it all.

Well, I digress... all this to say my blog has become less about me trying to put together an intelligent thought and more about just keeping up with everything we've been up to. And for the most part I'm okay with that because I fully intend to enjoy the 5 months of fun we have left! However I do want to record what God is teaching me because it has been some good and sometimes challenging stuff. Mama stuff, forgiveness stuff, adoption stuff, submission stuff, with a whole lot of searching mixed in. So, I am setting a goal to sit down every other Wednesday or so (my goals are a bit more flexible these days) to try and just write something that doesn't have anything to do with something we've done. It will still probably be something to do with my kids, just more thought life and a little less play by play of our real life.

The funny thing is when I sat down to write this post I simply wanted to tell you about how God taught me something through our morning Bible time and a little pink princess devotional book. But...my family just woke up so I guess that will have to be a later post. :)