The end is near

I can see the light at the end of this!

School's winding down, sports season just ended, 

-it's graduation, party, and celebration time. 

It's where the fruit of many months of hard work & labor show themselves. 

While the crazy hours of practices, carpooling, homework, projects can be 

tedious and long...

they've each been recognized and rewarded in classrooms and activities. 

Most importantly, I've seen so much growth on the insides of them and watched them truly thrive and bloom. 

Also blossoming is the messes in our house in this crazy season of overstuffed calendars. It's too much to keep up with this week. 

Some of my fave blog posts are glimpses 

of the sights & perspectives of our home and calendar, right where we are in life. 

Games (Brooklyn's softball and Kyler's baseball) have been taking the majority of our weeknights. B's started at 7:45 pm and would keep us out until nearly 10 pm. I think us parents should gotten trophies at the end of the season, ha! 

Anyway I walked around and snapped some cell pics of what the "end of year" wrath has left on our house. 

Papers, binders, backpack contents, remnants of hard work, scattered around. Waiting for a slow in schedules to be cleaned, purged or filed away into scrapbooks. 

Laundry and pool towels that leave evidence of the abundant fun had by lots of kids. 

Parties prepped and awaiting the bustle of happy 8th grade graduating girls tomo night. 

I love our "lived-in" home. 

I love the hub of activity that is a constant confirmation of what the sign says that hangs by our front door:

A place where you're allowed to be exactly who you are. 

A place where things don't have to look perfect and everyone is free to grow, change and be. 

I'll probably be known as the lady with the untidy house and smiling kids but..

it's an intentional decision to place my priorities exactly where they are. 

"Love grows best in houses just like this"