"Check, PLEASE!!"

I was inspired to write this blog after reading about Shannon's mommy trying trip to the grocery store...check it out all you mothers! Anyways, Jacklynn has still not gotten back to her normal sleeping habits and woke up rather early yesterday morning. So we decided to try out 1st service at church and then head to lunch. Well, about the time we arrived at the restaurant her tiredness caught up to her along with her hunger and frustration that she is unable to communicate with us the way she would like. From the time we sat down to eat until the bill was paid Nic and I maybe said one or two words to each other...the only thing we could get in between Jacklynn screaming at the top of her lungs, grunting, throwing food on the floor, choking on the food she was quickly shoving into her mouth, and then laying her head in the food on the table. At one point, I honestly considered asking for my food to go, so we could just leave. Instead Nic and I ate our food and paid the bill within a matter of maybe 7 minutes. As we drove home (and she feel asleep before we were out of the parking lot!), I thought of this song that has been causing me in my nesting, emotional state to cry EVERYTIME I hear it. It is by Trace Adkins and my favorite part is this...

Five years later there's a plummer workin' on the water heater,
Dogs barkin' phones ringin' one kid's cryin' one kid's screamin',
And she keeps apologizing, he says they don't bother me I got 2 babies of my own
one's 36 one's 23 it's hard to believe

But you're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times so take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this
You're gonna miss this
Yeah, you're gonna miss this

I don't know if I would ever like to re-live our lunch yesterday, but I do know one day I will miss this age of drastic emotions....so excited and unsure about things in the world, but frustrated that she can't have and do everything she wants! On a brighter note, We have since returned back into public places and are doing a lot better today!

I also wanted to share with a few of Jacklynn's 1-yr old pictures...can you believe it? They were taken last Monday by Carpenter Photography. There are more pics of Jac on their website as well!