DEFENSE!

What a great way to define today - DEFENSE. I felt like we were fighting things all day. Here is a brief recap:
1) Mom and Dad had insurance physicals today so we had to fast for 12 hours. Fighting off hunger while feeding your kids semi-constantly is incredibly challenging. Supper never tasted so good!
2) Lily is getting a tooth and has been particularly cranky. She shoves things in her mouth, bites down and SCREAMS. The tylenol and orajel don't seem to be doing anything - poor thing seemed to be battling all day.
3) Evie just wants to play real defense. Thursdays are Upward practice nights and, though we aren't any help, we girls like to go along. Evie yearns to be on the court doing everything Daddy and the boys are doing. She watches and imitates - it is adorable. She has a special shirt she wears on game days that she calls her "Upward Player". She shows us how to dribble and (as demonstrated above) is really good at defense! She did defensive slides all the way into the house tonight after practice - with all the intensity she could muster.
I think we are all going to cherish our sleep tonight - no fighting that. Even Ev asked me during our nightly bedtime songs to sing "God gives us sleep" and He gave it to her quickly :)