Trapeze, Puzzles, and Balance

I am a wife and a mother.  Sometimes it is difficult to remember that I became a wife before I became a Mommy. Upon the entrance of children,  I learned quickly that balancing the roles of wife and mother require the skills of balance that I have only seen in the most talented of trapeze artists.

Trapeze artist I am not.  Perfect balance I do not have.

This weekend, however, balance was made easier when my in-laws swept the kids away for the day to enjoy a football experience. 

This is what we were doing before the kids left. . .

We were all working on a puzzle.

After Charlie was born, Chad and I used to love to do puzzles.  We sat at our kitchen table for hours, with Charlie asleep in his infant swing, and pieced together complicated puzzles.  During that time we talked, laughed, and enjoyed just being together.  As the weeks and months moved forward and infants turned into toddlers such times were more difficult to come by.  Until recently when they have joined us, that is.