My life in the Mountains:Same life, different Views

Well, we aren't on the prairie anymore.  But besides the view outside my window life remains pretty much the same.   I find that settling into a new home together in a new town with different things to do reminds me once again how much I love my life.  I'm so grateful that I get to stay home and raise my sons, and not just because I'm a terrible morning person that would never make it out the door every day to an outside job. Though that could be a big part of it!  I love how they make me laugh every day, I love the little conversations I get to have with them (that are really often very big).  I love (well I should love) how God continues to transform me on the tougher days of parenting through quarrels and bad attitudes.   I know not everyone has the choice to stay home and I appreciate that I do...most of the time!

What most people ask me is, "How do you like CO?"  It is impossible to answer that without comparing it to my old life on the prairie.  The important things (like I mentioned above) get to stay the same.  Other things are different:

We have a lot more kids on the block in our new home to play with (yay!).
We have a tiny back yard compared to our old view of the prairie (sigh).
But it has a big play set so hubby didn't have to build a tree house (yay!).
And we have mountains to look at on the numerous bike paths (yay!).
No awesome swimming pool, really I had NO idea how spoiled we were in our old town! (sigh!)  The couple times we've gone to a pool the Things want to know where the sand box, water slides and play equipment are.  Sorry charlie, it is just swimming!
We have awesome trails to go off roading and hiking all around us! (Yay!).
And a new overhauled transmission in our jeep so we can make it to those trails (sigh!)
We are going back to the home schooling experiment in just another week (sigh...errr, yay!  no, really, yay!  I think!)  The Things didn't get into the charter school they have been waiting a YEAR to get into (it is THAT good), but they did make it into the home school option where they go one day a week.  
I have a couple new friends, at least I'm hoping they will be my friends :) and am enjoying connecting with old ones (yay!).

The boys have made the transition much better than I expected which is a big answer to prayer (Yay!).
I'll leave you with a few recent quotes:
 As we drove through town I pointed out the Garden of the God's to my parents who are visiting.

T1 - It is breathtaking.  You just walk around in a big circle.
My Mom - We should go then sometime.
T1 - NO!
Me - Thing 1, what does "breathtaking" mean?
T1 - It is tiring!

After a week of camping in our "new" pop-up (yay!):

Me: WE all smell and need to go home and take baths!
T3: Yeah!  We stink like pigs!

 At the dinner table yesterday:
Me: - T1 will you please pass me a napkin?
T1 - slowly pulls it out of the pig shaped tin holder while making pooping noises, "It is pooping out your napkin."
Hubby - (Discreet smile).  "Better than vomiting it out!"
 T1 - What is "vomit"?
Hubby - Throwing up.  Will you hand me one too?
T1 - Sure!  The pig is throwing up your napkin (complete with sound effects).

Sigh...life with three boys stays the same, no matter if you are in the mountains or on the prairie!  And I wouldn't have it any other way.  :)