we're back.

wow.

when i said i needed a break, i really wasn't kidding with myself.

saturday morning i woke up feeling way sick.

after a few days of feeling like death, i took myself to the minute clinic.

turns out, i had strep throat.

strep throat?  are you kidding me?

i thought you had to be like 8 to catch strep.

apparently not.

but i do know one thing.  i would much rather naturally birth all of my babies again, then to have that strep throat pain.

it felt like death i tell ya.  death.

so, we've spent the last 4 days doing this:

movie days, holla.

i'm pretty sure i overheard caedmon praying that i would be sick longer so that we could have more movie days.

rude.

and yes, hadley is sitting in a bumbo.  she's 5, and she loves to sit in a bumbo.  actually, they all do.  it's the hot seat in the house.

anywho.

for the news you really came here for:

elsa will be home in just a few days.

days.

not weeks.

not months.

but days.

there's so much i want to tell y'all, but it's just not the right time.

thanks for being so excited for us---and with us.

y'all are lovely.  really, really lovely.

and since in just a few days i will have 2 little ladies under this roof, i went ahead and changed my blog banner.

what do you think?

eventually, i'll make a new one with pics of ALL the kiddos, but for now, this one will do :)

it's all so exciting!