Oh You Know A Month Later

img_0598I am so very sorry to those family members that depend on this little corner of the world wide web to keep up with the crazy antics of the Kulow family.  I wish that I had a good excuse for why I have ignored this little corner, yet, alas I am fresh out of excuses.
It seems as though with the time that I have been given with having two hours by myself for two days a week I had grandiose ideas of what I would do and I have found that those short hours are filled with more of the same, housework, running errands and the everyday routines.
I had plans of getting the boys quilts sewed up, their beds painted, their rooms organized, and a few little things here and there that I have been wanting to get done and nothing!  How does that happen?  Two hours two days a week to a mom that has been a full time mom of a growing family for the last six years should seem like a huge reprieve… but the mind wanders far beyond the reality of those one hundred and twenty minutes I am afraid.
I know that you are I am sure eager to see pictures of the boys too… well my computer has taken another digger and Hubby and I are in negotiations about another one for me.  My computer has been on it’s last leg for a few years now and it seems that hubby has been able to find tricks to get it along for a little more time.  However the last two months it has been struggling with the simplest task of uploading my pictures so that I can edit them.  Basically that it why I have my computer any way.  So although I have been taking a lot of pictures they are all on my phone (oh yeah I got a smart phone… no more dumb phone for this momma) and I have been faithfully sharing them on Instagram… so feel free to join me there for little snippets into the crazy Kulow world.  Pictures of the Kulow boys are shared under the hashtag #growingupkulow .
As our summer season is coming to an end I am feeling a slight gloom.  I have really enjoyed this summer… it was too fast but other than that the weather has been glorious.  My garden this year was a work horse.  I had to a few times invite our neighbors over to the Kulow garden to pick and eat.  I have learned to can and I did a few batches of canning pickles and green beans.  It makes my heart a little giddy at the thought that our family will be able to enjoy the bounty of our garden even through the winter months.  This summer I planted with purpose and I have more than reaped the benefits of it!  I know that as our summer comes to a close and fall and winter knock I will be plotting and planning for next year’s spring and summer gardens.
Last week we had a fluke snow storm that blew in and needless to say it freaked me a out a little.  Not that it was snowing but that winter will be here before we know it.  Middle brother was all kinds of excited over the snow.  I think if he had it his way he would live in a place that snowed all the time.  He loves the snow, and all that it entails… sweaters, sweat pants, big socks, snuggling in blankets and playing for hours in the snow making snow men.  Thankfully for my sanity sake the snow did not stick to the ground we just had temperatures in the low forties for two days and by the weekend we were back to seventies and this week we even hit high nineties.
All three boys are loving school!  There was a week where I had about had it and I called up Hubby and said, “We are pulling the boys and homeschooling them.”  After a weekend to pray and refocus my heart and mind I know that it was a knee jerk thought and reaction.  Our boys are all thriving and loving school.  So for now all three boys are in school at our local public school and until the time where I know with out a shadow of doubt my boys will stay there and not be home schooled!  This whole parenting gig is not for the weak at heart!
Hubby has been working a lot lately, I think the snow last week worried him about what this winter might have in store and so the need to work and bank hours has been looming over his head.  Thankfully however hubby has been working in town which means that we do get to see him in the evenings and weekends.  It is obvious in the last two weeks that our boys are really needing daddy time.  Just this morning Big Brother asked when dad is going to have a day to just relax around the house and play with him.  Kind of made me sad and happy all at the same time.  Our boys are growing up and mommy time is not sufficient to fill their tanks any more, they need the rough and tumble time that daddy offers.  Here is to hoping for a little bit of a slower fall and winter for Hubby for the sake of our boys!
There has been some stirring in my heart in the recent month and I can not put my finger on it.  I have been feeling like our family is headed toward a time of … something.  I have had some heavy heart moments and others of pure joy, I don’t want to say that I am waiting for the shoe to fall but I am feeling like there is something that the Lord is preparing either in me or our family.  It is hard to put it into words because simply there are no words just an inclination in the depths of my heart.  I do know however that some of the stirring has come from the recent sermon series that our pastor has been going through at church… “Jesus Edition: Extreme Makeover” he is working through the book Acts and the story of Saul to Paul and how we are called to be Christians not only at church but in our daily lives so that others can see the light of Christ and ask and seek answers.  So whatever that stirring in my heart might be I am eager and expectant for it’s unveiling!
I think that about sums up the last month… kind of silly that in one short post I can write out what you may have missed in an entire month of the Kulow’s lives… I hope to be more faithful on postings in the coming months as life gets into a routine and I find balance within in own mind and life.  I think that is the key point… balance… I try so often to get everything done that inevitably there is something that will be dropped.  So here is to seeking balance and hopefully a few more regular blog posts!
Lots of love from our house to yours!

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