"How do you do it?"

This is the question I am most frequently asked.

I hate it. 

We have 14 (almost 15 month old twins).

My husband and I are both teachers.

I teach theatre.

He teaches third grade.

We have siblings. 

We are the youth/children's ministry directors at our church. 

We cloth diaper.

We shower every day.

We still love each other and don't usually fight. 

People think we are super human.

We are not. 

We are human.

How do we do it?

I don't know.

I guess time management is the answer.

We don't exercise enough.

We eat frozen pizza too often.

We take naps that last 3 hours when we are lucky.

We aren't super human,

We love.

We love God.

We love our boys.

We love each other.

We love our students.

We love our dog. 

We love art.

We love Thai food, Mexican food, wine

AND GIN.

We do the best we can.

We try to remember our love in everything we do. 

This is how we can function on little sleep and little money.

We have piles of dishes.

We have never ending laundry. 

We never sleep enough.

We can feed our sons.

We love.

We have never ending laundry. 

Our dog craps in the hall.

We avoid the post office. 

We wait to fix our water heater, 

We are avoiding our thesis/dissertation but are applying for new degree programs.

We love. 

God provides.

We laugh. Every day. 

That is how we do it. Laughter and love get us through.

We pray.

We share God's love. 

We PRAY.

We laugh.

That is how we do it. 

Even if we are barely holding it together. 

"And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19