the heavy, the light, and everything in between

i vividly remember how this whole blog thing got started.  josh decided we should have a way to share pics of the kids with friends and out-of-town family, so HE set up a blog (i had never even heard of a blog), and HE named it the five lewis crew, and HE wrote several posts beginning in july of 2009. 

he hasn't written since august of that year.  (which is a shame b/c i thought he was a really funny writer.)

so somehow this blog thing fell into my lap.  i decided to use it as a scrapbook of sorts of the kids and the things we all do together as a family.  i wrote about one of my finest homeschooling moments and the day abby's friend's leg fell off; i shared about how i fed my kids in the trunk at mcdonald's and how i almost became a vegan; and i posted pics that made me weepy...

and some that made me laugh out loud...

little did i know that this blog would also become a vessel through which i shared some of the most difficult and painful seasons of my life.  i'm so thankful for the sweet connections it's has allowed me to have with people around the country (and some around the world), but i realized last week that somewhere along the road of sharing the weighty parts, i lost the day-to-dayness of what i started out to do.  so with that said, i'm not dropping the meat, but i am mixing back in the fluff.  i'm going to work on being deliberate about photographing the tidbits of life with our little people and preserving those memories and stories here. 

and i can neither confirm nor deny that today's email from my mom has anything to do with it: i'll get straight to the point.  when are you going to update your blog?!?!?!?!?  hee-hee and stay tuned!  :-)