today's uniform

The boys are pretty big fans of dressing alike.  On those mornings I hear them calling out to one another to "wear this" or "find that" and at times a concerned "you should check the dirty clothes pile".

Isaac sometimes joins in, sometimes opts out.  But these two are faithful.  If one of them suggests a match, the other is always game.  [On the other hand, many many many days they don't match at all.... but when the idea strikes, they jump.]

I can't help but grin when I look at these two.  In so many ways they are the unlikeliest of brothers.  But there's a lot more than just matching clothes - the Lord orchestrated a beautiful brotherhood, matched or not!

And right down the hall the girls were doing their own match.  Julianna and Lydia are less likely to wear the same thing (unless you count their school uniforms, in which case they wear matching clothes every single week day afternoon during the school year!)

Crazy that they ended up in UND gear the same day my littlest two were in UNC gear.

They can be pretty ridiculous.  Especially at the end of a fun-packed day when bedtime looms and the crazies tend to come out in full force.

Isaac was a wardrobe lone ranger today.  I only have one picture of him, taken at an ice skating birthday party this afternoon.

Another busy summer day, written in the books.  I accomplished a few big-o house projects in the past two days.  Moved furniture in the guest room, relocated a bookshelf, bought a new (used) shelf for our school porch, pulled every last thing off the school porch and put much of it back where it belongs.  I still have a few things on my list (ha!  or maybe more than a few!) but it feels real good to have those behind me.