What happens to the time????

I think that the fall is hands down the busiest season for my family! We have school, MSU stuff (always more in the fall!), soccer, CCD (which this year is first communion prep for Luke!), retreats, football games, oh my goodness! I sometimes feel I can hardly catch my breath. And, I lose sight of who I am or what is most important because I'm literally saying "get in the car boys, we need to be [somewhere] now!" It is insane sometimes.

Anyway - in the midst of all the hecticness lately, here are a couple of moments from my boys:

1) Aidan's class made a "cookbook" for the Moms - with all of the kids favorite foods their Moms make. Ms. Susan interviewed each child and wrote down what they said about their favorite food, and how their Mom cooked it. Here's what Aidan said:

My favorite food is meatballs with no spaghetti. She [mom] may just get
a box of them from the store and then she gets the spaghetti and packs it up and
puts it in the trash.

(translate - my boys both don't like the spaghetti part, so I cook it, serve it with their sauce and meatballs, and they don't eat anything but the meatballs, and I end up throwing the spaghetti in the trash!! LOL)

2) My boys were climbing trees at the CCC on Saturday, and Luke is quite good, where Aidan is not. Luke was professing "Mom, God made me special because I am a good tree climber, a good artist, and a good soccer player." [hey, confidence is alright sometimes!] So Aidan is sulking, and says "I don't know why God made me. I can't do anything." Then he quickly turns on a dime and says "God made ME special too, because I can climb all the trees with no wood or bark!" [um, what trees are those???] Ah they make me laugh!