A Peaceful Night

I don't know about all you other mommies out their, but bedtime is far from restful around here. It starts after dinner: the kids go upstairs, brush their teeth, then bathe (and the bathroom usually ends up under four inches of water). Then we read scriptures, Articles of Faith, prayers, read stories, sing songs, and then the girls usually want me to tell them a story that I made up on the spur-of-the-moment.

It's a lot for a person who knows that there is a mountain of laundry waiting in the other room to be folded.

After Porter gets put to bed, OP and I let the girls have "Quiet Time" where they get to quietly play in their room until eight o'clock when it is lights out time. Quiet time is usually not quiet. It is usually me warning the girls that if they yell or fight again it will be lights out immediately. Then they keep running into our room telling us some story or tattling.... exhausting!

Now you can understand how much I appreciated it when I went to check on the too-quiet girls and saw this:

It was lovely!