Hurricanes and lifeguards

Tonight Farris read me a quote from the Reader's Digest, something along the lines of:
What is it like to have four kids? Sort of like if you were drowning and someone handed you a baby.
I snickered, thinking, oh yeah, try five.
Felicity counted up the kids and said "Seth's the forth!" and Caleb lit up. "So that means that Seth jumped in and saved Mommy!"
I laughed out loud at that one. For as adorable as Seth is, he's a little roller coaster of emotions, he can be incredibly demanding and grumpy...oh, he can just be hard sometimes.
But the more I think about it, it's true, and not just about Seth. It does feel like a whirlpool, a crazy spinning hurricane in our house sometimes. But with five kids, there's always one to jump in and save me.
Sometimes I need a snuggle just as much as Seth does.
Making faces with Caleb, just to try to make each other giggle, even in the middle of church...oops.
Joseph's lightheartedness lets me relax my death grip on the to-do list a little.
Abigail's amazement at the whole world, but she still thinks we're the coolest thing she's seen.
Felicity's wild imagination mixed with this incredible practical side that pops out unexpectedly.
I'm so very grateful for the little lifeguards Heavenly Father sent me. I'm grateful He knew what I needed. And I'm grateful for Farris, that we're both swimming through this adventure together.


p.s. Tarilynn, that poem of yours got me feeling all sentimental-ly ;)