well, hi.
today was the first real day of our winter break. we did have some surprise days off with the snow this week, too, so it's all blended together to become one long hiatus in the middle of winter.
i don't think i could be happier about it.

we assemble and reassemble ourselves into various family units here, at different times of the day, days of the week, weeks of the year. this is one of the handful of weeks that we become a family of five: just my three girls and tim and i.

it's funny, because as much as i long for time spent one-on-three with my daughters, i recognize that it stopped feeling normal so long ago. normal is not just we three, or four, or five. normal is all eight of us.

all of us may not = easy. but it is-especially when they are all asleep and the front light is on, the doors are shut, and a new day is waiting at the end of a good nights' sleep-what feels right.

in the meantime, i have a long stretch of time now to pay some good sweet attention to my girls. and when "break" is over, there will still be plenty more to go around.

more tomorrow. thanks for reading.
tt