i'm here.

it's not so fun getting back to the routine and schedule of things after family leaves. however, it is necessary. it doesn't help that miley girl keeps asking "where's papa?!" when she wakes up and hears the front door open only to discover it's daddy coming home from a morning run.

as playgroup resumes this week, i can't help but think we only have five weeks left {including tomorrow's class}. this whole year we've been taking one week to do each letter of the alphabet by implementing a bible portfolio project with the upper case letter one day and a game/craft/lesson when we do the lowercase partner on the following day. with only ten playgroup meets left, i'm going to have to teach one letter per day if we're going to make it through the alphabet. when i went to count it out, we will complete 'Z' perfectly on the last day we meet {which will also have to include a large party of sorts - of course}. i feel like i should still be in the stages of organizing a lesson plan for the year. like i should be planning our schedule. buying supplies. getting it 'together'. but here we are...almost done. *boo*

most of my precious little ones that come to preschool playgroup are moving away when we're all finished, which is the main reason we need to finish on time. we've seen several come and go throughout the year, but out of the four i have left, one has already moved an hour away; another is moving to england; one is moving to vermont...and then the other, along with jessa, will be moving into kindergarten. i'm feeling windblown by time. whoosh.

we had a lovely easter weekend together even though it was saturday morning that grammy flew back home in the "hairplane". the girls had a easter egg hunt {as in, find the obvious eggs as they sit in the grass} over on the campus lawn on saturday morning. it was our first experience with anything like that...and it lasted three minutes and 16 seconds. if that. i was shocked at how quickly 500 eggs can be scooped up by eager little hands. thankfully, the girls walked away with several in their little personalized pails, miley consuming ALL of her candy thanks to daddy's help unwrapping. he's weak when it comes to sugar...and more weak when it comes to miley girl giving him 'the look'. we all know it.

we had such a relaxing, carefree kind of easter sunday {with my focus being on what it's really about} that i didn't even snap one picture of my girls in their dresses. bummer, yes. end of the world? not so much. the only picture i took was of our dessert i made. big whoop. food? cute girls in dresses. food...? cute girls in dresses...? i think i see a set-up photo op on the horizon.

actually, i can't stop thinking about what God the Father gave and what God the Son obediently sacrificed on my behalf. why me? why everyone else? why Him? His perfection and holiness made Him the Only begotten. the Only choice. the Only option. the Only out. it was the only way God the Father would be satisfied with the abolishment - the annihilation. obliteration. extermination. elimination - of sin. of death. Jesus was it.

and we can have it.

and we can share it.

and we can demonstrate it in our lives.

that just pumps me up!