A Day in the Life with Lukas and Annabel

My sister is one of my favorite people on the planet. Among the others are Lukas and Annabel, her two wildly amazing kiddos. Emphasis on the “wild” part. Fortunately for me, I get to spend lots of time with these three, but it was quite a different perspective to follow them around for the morning as they went about their routine, which included a trip to the library. A very LOUD and crazy library. My youngest son and her oldest are just shy of 6 years apart in age, so it’s been a lot of years since I’ve been a mother of toddlers. But I can’t tell you how many times I thought to myself, “Oh my gosh, I remember this” as I followed her. I had a flashback of shamefully dashing out of the local library after my kids lost it in the middle of craft time. I know some kids can sit still, but I just can’t relate to parenting that kind of kid. Neither can my sister. Is their strong will and antsy behavior genetic? Possibly. Motherhood is so incredibly hard when kids are one and three, and even though those days are far behind me, I look at these photos and the details in the day, and I can remember exactly how it felt. So much goes into a day of mothering toddlers . . . kisses, tantrums, tears, smiles, and a whole lot of goldfish.