Garrett & Emily: January

January was very intimidating. I was in denial about it for a while, but it came anyway. I started going to school for 5 hours a day, which was more than I'd done since high school. I usually did online and a night class or two. Now I was gone before my kids woke up and got home in time to feed them lunch and put them to bed for naps. It was kind of rough starting out. I felt super overwhelmed and struggled with what roles I needed to focus on the most. I just felt like I was never doing my best at anything. But it kind of helped me to find more joy in my children when I did take the time to be with them.

Bekah, still very into dressing up

Xander, 5 months already!

Garrett sent me this picture while I was at school one day. It warmed and broke my heart at the same time. I wanted to be there nursing my baby but was so grateful that there are so many people at home to give him and Bekah love. Thank you Garrett, Cody, and Chelsey!

Look at that charm!

Headed to school at 5:30 am because I was lead-teaching (in charge of the whole classroom--set-up and curriculum-- for the week)

Feeling relieved to be headed to school at 7:30 am again! One month down!

We bought matching shirts for our boys that were all born withing 13 months of each other. Baer is looking for an escape, Timothy is cheesing out for the cameras, Xander is feeling abandoned, and Ross is squished and probably going deaf from Xander.